If I'd answered this a couple of months ago, I'd have had to say 20+ years. But it was late January or early February 1982 when my parents bought a Commodore C

If I'd answered this a couple of months ago, I'd have had to say 20+ years. But it was late January or early February 1982 when my parents bought a Commodore CBM-8032 "business machine" with an 8050 dual 5¼" disk drive and a daisy wheel printer, and I began learning how to be a total geek. They swore the novelty would wear off eventually; maybe give it another decade?