The VIC-20 was the first computer I could call my own. It was a near perfect toy for a kid, just the way it worked when you were entering text seemed to encoura

The VIC-20 was the first computer I could call my own. It was a near perfect toy for a kid, just the way it worked when you were entering text seemed to encourage exploration. You could use the cursor keys, color control keys, and graphics keys to paint a picture without actually programming and when you did want to write a program, you could workshop your PETSCII on the screen before coding it in. I love how the manual encourages you to experiment, and how it portrays error messages as the computer helpfully flagging up mistakes so you can fix them.