I remember the first time I sat down with my C64. That thing was quite scary. Full of buttons that had weird symbols written on every face of the keys. It had a

I remember the first time I sat down with my C64. That thing was quite scary. Full of buttons that had weird symbols written on every face of the keys. It had a disk drvie that would make drruuuun prrub drruuun sounds while the little light flashed. Boy, did it looked busy. The power button was nowhere to be found by this 7 year old. The cables? Where do they go? Little by little I kept breaking down each issue I faced. Its funny how things never change. One cable went here, the other there. Turns out someone was smart enough to make the cables fit in one way only. Then I found the power button after hitting every possible key on it. Luckily I had managed to plug it in before doing that. The monitor came alive and suddenly I had a working computer in front of me. Little did my oldest brother know that unplugging it would not keep me from using it. Then came the issue with not knowing how to use the thing. I did not speak or read english and the manual was written in it. What was PRINT? GOTO? Well, that was for me to find out. Turns out, I still use the same method. Break up everything into pieces and work with each piece at a time. I do miss that C64.