Who typed his/her first program with one of these?

I had the slightly newer shape but awesome piece of kit

First microcomputer program! Still have the 64 in my basement and Balloon Man cartridge! Fun times 😀

@philcr I had both! 🤣

Gorillas! Painstakingly typed and recorded to cassette tape. :)

Used to love our old C64 when I was a kid, I was hooked on computers from that point. My older brother started on an Amiga, though I'm not sure which model it was..

@ZaLiTHkA I remember a Gorillas but it was included into QBASIC... Two gorillas had to hit each other launching bananas with angle and speed given by the user. Was that the same?

@redundandundant, yup, the very same. However, the one my brother and I bought came in a book with a blank cassette tape. The whole idea was that you had to type it out manually, probably arrive sort of "introduction to scripting" story, not too sure.

To be fair I was only about 5 or 6 years old at the time, so I don't remember the coding language, never forget the game though..

Gorillas was great fun, I remember it well. I spent ages hacking stuff onto the not so user friendly user port on the back to control technic Lego motors.

I miss those days where you could fry stuff so easily, what it in fact inspired me to be is an engineer

Still hate myself for selling it to get an Amiga (though did love the Amiga)

I wish I had one. It's probably the best computer for coders like me. I like the simple hardware and the fact that you can "feel" how fast it is.

On modern computers you can only recognize when it's slow. Especially while rendering some complex scene I have to wait. Older computers of course don't render complex scenes. But printing some text or images on the screen feels not just great but "fast". I don't know how to describe it... I want a c64!

@sirjofri ah the simple days, I loved my Commodore 64 and my amiga primitive days.

I hoped the raspberry pi would be a similar experience to these old beasties but sadly not. I loved the when you fucked the computer up you could power it off and on and fix it, no having to worry about partitions becoming corrupted. Happy days