Priceless? It was $595 to be precise ;)

dam that must have felt bad

The price for those apple II pieces of crap is amazing!

​​@@Phenom98 in 1977 the Apple was a marvel. Two years later, the Atari 800 was released and had numerous custom chips for faster processing, graphics, etc, putting everyone to shame. The C64 was cheaper due to vertical integration and owning fabrication plants, making the net cost lower. Considering Apple and Atari didn't have the lengthy history or fab plants from the get-go, they did rather well.

90s kid here. I grew up with the atari ST which my dad bought before i was born and i learned everything about computers there. My neighbor had an amiga and it wasnt until 1994 that i got to see the first windows pc... oh the good times

In those days, a "glorified typewriter" was electric, and had an erase ribbon. These were some of the first home computers, and there was nothing that came before them that compared. You got out of your computer what you put into it. In my case, I took my C64 to college with me, and programmed in regression equations for my physics lab homework - it saved me cold walks to the computer lab to enter my data into the VAX to have it spit out the same numbers. I also used it to quiz me on my vocabulary for German class. Since I had a printer too, I could use it to plot out data from various lab courses - saved me a lot of time drawing by hand - the alternative back then. Games were big back then too, but as an engineering student, I didn't have a whole lot of time for that. I first learned to program BASIC the summer after 8th grade - local schools sent their 2 best math students to Hanover college where we learned BASIC on their mainframe. Our terminals were in one building, and hooked up to the computer via phone lines. Our terminals did not have screens - they were "glorified typewriters" with a box of green and white fan-fold paper in a big box on the floor in front of us. Everything we typed in, and the computer spit out, got printed (loudly) on that paper. Those home computers were the first machines many young Gen-X engineers first got their hands on. They weren't exactly cheap, but it was brand new tech doing things people had never seen before.

@@Cynthia_Cantrell And to most of the world, the pc was a typewriter that used electricity just so you could have a Backspace, Cursor movement & save a little space with a disc (not much, as you had to dote around with Floppies a little and give them space to expect them to still function). With a friend of mine who had a Commodore, it was mostly an early gaming rig. I also love how most of the "AWESOME THINGS THEY CAN DO!" in the media was just Word Search, which wasn't even easy to do over half of the time for a while.

@@Cynthia_Cantrell Well said. Younger generations always fail to see the value of the ways the older generations did things within the context of the times.

@@AlanSmitheeman I get a kick out of telling young people that I learned to program on a computer that didn't have a screen. The reaction is usually something like "WHAT?! How is that even possible?!" It's amazing how easily we have come to take home computers for granted. If you're young enough, it's hard to imagine a world without the internet - when if you wanted to know more about something you went to the library and poked through drawers of little cards to find the right book, or if you were lucky, you knew a family with a set of encyclopedias. Of course, I've had my own "tech shock" too. There is a scene in the movie "Apollo 13" just after the oxygen tank explosion where the astronauts radio back to Houston the readings for the tanks levels. The camera pans over the control room and a dozen engineers whip out their slide rules to calculate how much air time they have left. My immediate thought was "Holy crap! What the hell were they thinking going to the moon with slide rules?!" Fortunately, by the time I was becoming "math aware" in school, battery powered pocket calculators were a thing! We live in exciting times though... I'm hoping I'll be able to fly in a battery powered airplane in the next few years!

It's bach, I can't quite place it but it's bach for sure.

OK I figured it out Bach Invention 13 but it's in the 'wrong' key.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7ufnc1hvq-yYWg.html

@@benwilson5729 In A key to be more specific

biggest bruh moment when people found out about this. still worth it though

What is a "disk based monitor"? The disk operating system?

@@gregorymalchuk272 I meant to say cart based.

@@AllGamingStarred I think you meant CRT monitor, and no you didn't. If you had a VHF converter box(Radio Shack had them cheap) you could literally hook it to any TV you could get your hands on. I never owned the Commodore monitor and used my own TV for years, and before the 5.25" diskette there was the data cassette player/recorder(cheaper if slower), so no, you didn't need all those things to use a C64. You could still even design a program and run it without those things though if you wanted to save it you needed to have them, and as for the Compute! Magazines those weren't needed if you knew how to program in BASIC.

@@ImpendingJoker how does your comment read 9 minutes ago when I made this comment a year ago?