Dreams coming true
The moment I learned about the 80's 8-bit home computer era, I always wanted to acquire one of the computers of that time, to touch the history, feel what computing was like in the Golden Age.
There is a magical aura that surrounds that period of time. Computers were something new, unexplored, everything seemed possible. It was the beggining of something great, something that would eventually change the world as we know it. Using a computer, programming it, was more like an adventure, a journey into the unknown. I'm not saying computers aren't fun nowadays, but we're much more used to them now.
So yesterday I bought a Commodore 64 on eBay. Can you believe that? A. COMMODORE. SIXTY. FOUR. GAWD.
So in a few weeks, I will turn this machine on and see white characters on a blue background: **** COMMODORE BASIC V2.0 ****. Then I will write a Hello, world! program and after that, I will play games! v^_^
Btw, I believe that C64 makes you a better programmer just by owning it.
Wikipedia page
64 minute talk/article about C64 @ pagetable.com
Martin Galway - Comic Bakery, one of the most famous chiptunes of all time, came from C64
Bender has (will have?) a 6502 installed as his brain, the same chip that C64 uses