Commodore 64

“found the process of trail-and-error learning my way through BASIC to be absolutely awesome”

“I was fortunate to find out about the C64 years later and jump into basic programming.”

“The C64 manual I had included assembly language programming, and the full schematics for the computer”

“Fond memories too and like other folks put me on my software dev career path and being a life long gamer.”

“There was enough to do and learn with this machine to satisfy a young mind forever”

“having early and strong intuitions about computers paid off for years to come”

“It wasn't a good platform for programming, but it still made me fall in love with computers.”

“But those POKEs taught you about bits vs. bytes, and how computer memory worked”

“I've got the C64 Ultimate.... don't know if I see myself typing on that keyboard layout though.”

“It was a good buy for folks who got in early to build software/games for it.”

“Their beige C64 Ultimate is a well-executed clone of the legendarily popular original.”

“That he tried to lock down before getting backlash from the community?”

“I am thoroughly enjoying it and re-learning the eccentricities that all made sense to me back in the 80s”

“The price + graphics and sound (out-of-the-box) was what really made the difference for me and self-learning.”

“my computer background got me hired into tech investment banking out of college”

“Booting directly into a programming language REPL (in ~2 seconds, I might add) was a great signal that the C64 was ultimately for programming”

“It had color, graphics at good resolutions, fantastic sound, a decent keyboard and a good form factor, great peripherals, and excellent expandability.”

“The C64 was the first modern, affordable, multipurpose consumer computer with decent sound and graphics”

“I got lured into IT through games and BASIC, and now I so wish I had chosen a different career.”

“the Commodore 64 was the "best value" for getting a lot of functionality for the price”

“Commodore 64's let you play games and do other stuff (write docs/print, make music, make art) they jump started a generation of us onto computers”

“For many of us, it was our first computer. It was very simple to understand at every level and very hackable.”

“These days I have more fun messing with Amigas, C64s, and cheap emulation handhelds than big modern games.”

“are still great "bicycles for the mind" and a great intro to microcontrollers etc.”

“one of the advantages of the C64, IIRC, for games was that it had built in sprite manipulation”

“I had fun times around 1985 with zx81, ZX spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amiga 500.”

“Now, after the fact, they want to lock the FPGAs of already shipped devices to only accept Commodore-signed firmware.”

“the palette is a bit wonky so a lot of colors are hard to represent well”

“I have the lesser C64 Maxi. Would be nice if it could emulate the Plus 4 or the C16.”

“Who cares about a multiply instruction, when you could have sprites and 3 voice sound?”

“The C-64 gives you only one offscreen row or column to repaint every coarse scroll”

“personal computing didn't become truly affordable until the Commodore 64 came along in the 80s”

“It didn't really do much, but at least it didn't bug me every 15 minutes to upgrade.”

“I'm also the curious type who learned how to program just because the book was there next to the C64 game tapes”

“One great thing about the Commodore 64 was that it came with BASIC, but most importantly, it came with a manual!”

“I remember how peaceful I felt when I was designing and writing my (simple) games for it”

“the games on the commodore was that many of the games were closer to the arcade than what you got with the early NES cartridges could do”

“So, thank you, Commodore. You're 64KB computer impacted my life more than, probably, anything else in my life.”

“decades of art and innovation programmed on that "terrible" CPU”

“We had a Commodore 64 and an Amiga back in the 80s. I used to type up books reports and research papers which was really nice.”