I still have my Commodore 64 in the original box. Originally I purchased a Sinclair 1000, and when it arrived I hurridly opened up the box, tossed aside the small stuff looking for the computer. I found out later the small stuff was the computer, and returned it after a week.
On my 'beloved' Commodore 64 I modded in some switches and a headphone port, and my 1541 disk drive went south many moons ago. I used a cassette tape as storage. I had a piece of software that let me see the disk code, and I could edit it, making a Larry Bird / Magic Johnson video game use my friends names instead; there was even a stylus to write on the TV screen that somewhat drew what I traced.
I brought the computer to a nursing home and made the computer say the names of the residents. Boy I was something.
I remember subscribing to a Commodore magazine and typing pages and pages of code into a compiler. It never did compile and I lost everything. I even wrote a short program and had it published in the magazine; I still have that magazine also, circa 1983. There are emulators out there:
macintosh and
windows. Here's a
website that runs on java so you don't even need an emulator. Eventually I purchased a C128, which lasted a year or two before I sold it, but kept the C64.
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