I quasi-inherited my eldest brother's C64 when he stopped using it. I would've been ten or eleven, sometime around 1991 or 1992 I guess. Between him and his bes

I quasi-inherited my eldest brother's C64 when he stopped using it. I would've been ten or eleven, sometime around 1991 or 1992 I guess. Between him and his best friend there were scores of disks with a ton of games, mostly RPGs as I recall, though I remember mystery, adventure, and action games as well. I had a ton of fun with it and have nice memories of sitting in the corner of my bedroom, on the floor, with a small CRT TV, trying out various games at random. (They even had some pixelated porn images which I was pretty impressed with at the time ... not so much in a prurient sense -- I was only 10, after all -- but because I had never seen digitized photography before.) I'd cut off my left pinky to get all that equipment back, but my mother (for reasons I don't understand) gave it all away to my brother's friend when he died back in 1995. She gave away all his Magic the Gathering cards, too, of which he had an extensive collection ... probably would've sold for thousands of dollars at the time. Oh well. Sometimes I think about purchasing a C64 or C128 on eBay or something, but I'm not sure what I'd do with it. I was never that much of a tinkerer, and though I still remember LOAD "*",8,1, I never did much with it programmatically beyond typing in a few programs. That said, I do appreciate the opportunity to think about this stuff, and especially about my brother, who would be amazed at what we can do with computers today. He was gone way too soon.