The author neglects some points like the extremely slow 1541 floppy drive and the very rudimentary BASIC implementation of the C64, though… this created its ver

The author neglects some points like the extremely slow 1541 floppy drive and the very rudimentary BASIC implementation of the C64, though… this created its very own large aftermarket for floppy speeders, BASIC extensions and much more, whereas there was also a large market for Apple II extension cards (and clones of the whole machine). I grew up with Apple II europlusses at school and a C64 at home - original Apple machines were quite expensive in Germany and we were not aware of the Apple clones. Both machines were - and still are - fun to hack in their very special way and I’m still using the 6502 as an example architecture in some of my courses. Good times, no matter if the 6502 was in an Apple or Commodore (or Atari).