> When I turned on my Commodore 64 when I was 10 years old it did nothing. As a consequence I would spend all day manually typing in BASIC and Assembler source

> When I turned on my Commodore 64 when I was 10 years old it did nothing. As a consequence I would spend all day manually typing in BASIC and Assembler source code from magazines. I quickly became an expert at BASIC and Assembler programming. Heh, I remember doing exactly the same thing when I was something like 6 years old, typing in reams of code from a magazine, the name of which has been lost to time. I was absolutely fascinated that I could get this new and exciting piece of technology to do my bidding - even if what I was doing was laughable simple compared to what is possible now. I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if my dad hadn't bought that C64...