I was too hyperactive to maintain enough focus to limit my interest strictly to programming <SIGH>...but the almightly C-64 is hands down, the first product which single-handedly got me hooked on computers to this day and forever.

What was that computer magazine (Computer Gazzette??)...that monthly publication that included loads of games and applications compilable in both basic and machine language?

I recall spending countless hours as a wee twelve-year-old, entering lines upon lines of machine laguage code - which was nothing more than gibberish to me - late into the night.

Ah, good times, good times!

But, if there's any truth to the notion that history does repeat itself, then the new Commodores are going to absolutely dominate!...that is until the "new and improved" Amiga 500 comes along. :)

This is of course all tongue-in-cheek; things are very different this time around, as it ain't just the Apple IIC that they have to worry about.

But in it's time, it was THE gaming PC...bar none!...with an ultra-rich pallette of 16 colours at your disposal! On a serious note, the C-64 is a stellar early example of how a machine needn't be technically superior than its competitors to be the most popular, accepted, or supported.

"I ADORE MY 64!"

...for making me feel young again.

BTW: I never could afford a real square hole-punch; sufficed just as well with the lowly round paper punch though. Yup, Dysan was all the rage, back then.

...and don't accidentally drop that stack of punch cards!

Got unopened box of SSSD if your'e interested. Also got the hole punch,so you can use both sides of disk :)