My dad had one of these, it was stored in the attic because it was already hopelessly outdated, until little me found it. I found the various graphical characte

My dad had one of these, it was stored in the attic because it was already hopelessly outdated, until little me found it. I found the various graphical characters pretty interesting (that was before I could read, let alone read English BASIC commands) and started to "draw" stuff with it on the screen. Eventually I figured out very simple programs, like printing the same repeatable pattern over and over on the screen like a chain, and how to store those on a cassette and load them again later. And that was around the same time that I got an upgrade to my dad's old C64 - which again was already pretty dated when I got it, but that didn't really matter back then, because I had a big collection of pirated floppy disks with programs and games to sift through and even more curiosity to learn everything about this weird machine.