[Alas Babylon!]

I still have my Commodore 64, and it’s predecessor the Vic-20.

I have the Commodore disk drive and monitor, too.

However, they’re all out in a box in the barn, but still in their own original boxes.

SOMEDAY, I keep telling myself, I’m going to bring them in and start them up. I’ve been saying that since 1990.

[Tell It Right]

When my C-64's CPU chip burned up the 2nd time and it was hard to get a replacement, I threw it away along with my 1541 floppy drive and my tons of 5 1/4 " floppies with tons of software I made as a teenager. I thought I'd be virtually impossible to one day have a machine to read them. Besides, I was working full time and working on a computer science degree and had zero time to play with it.

Of course, now we have emulators for the C-64. I'd do just about anything to have not thrown away my hobby work as a teenagers so I could show my now grown "kids" what they could do if they put their minds to it.