Imagesource: https://twobithistory.org/

To be fair, home computers in the 80s came from a whole bunch of manufacturers whose listing here makes as much sense as upgrading an 56k modem for a faster dial-up connection.

Fact is: The best-selling home computer of all times is and remains the Commodore64 (*should Microsoft/OpenAI not decide to sell ChatGPT-in-a-box™* 🙄). My first really own machine was a C64, though due to certain walls in some countries and also in people's minds, only around anno 1987. But my little Commodore came - as far as my memory doesn't deceive me - with the USERS'S GUIDE and the rest is part of my personal history, which would have been shaped permanently by this very event.

The interesting question is: How many of us were shaped by this or competing technologies at the time?

There is at least a second person: Sinclair Target tweeting as @sinclairtarget. The story of his first encounter with the C64 and BASIC is so congruent with my own experience, that I'm sure, there are more people who may find themselves in there.

Commodore is your middle name (sorry, but it sure looks funny in your passport), BASIC your second mother tongue? Then this piece of nostalgia is definitely something for a few relaxed minutes of reading.