Personal Computing On The VIC-20 (1982)

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The manual to my first computer. Had the datasette storage as well. Loading a program took a good five minutes. Unfortunately the TV I used for it was black and white, so I only saw it in color once when I connected to the family TV.

The manual is amazing from today's perspective. On the first few pages it has cartoons and teaches you how to use the shift key and other such rudimentary things. Two chapters or so later you are learning how to PEEK and POKE (read/set) physical memory locations. It was friendly and assumed you were intelligent at the same time.

Same here! I really wanted a TI-99/4A but the parents ix-nay'ed that idea.

Many fond memories of VIC, and also many times when I'm doing something horribly manually-oriented on my current PC and I think, "Geez, this feels a lot like the VIC-20!"

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