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the personal site of eric a. Farris
Our family’s first personal computer. We bought it at Hills around 1983, along with a 1541 160K 5.25” floppy disk drive.
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C64 emulated in vice running on Mac OS X.
Some of my favorite games for the C64 were:
Though it was known for its games, I also did a fair amount of BASIC programming on it, and taught myself the 6502 Assembly language.
I am pleased to have a couple of these machines in my old computer collection, including an SX-64, a luggable version of the machine that has the distinction of being the first full color “portable” computer, and a C-128, the 128K PC that featured C64 compatibility as well as CP/M and 80-column capabilities.