People's relationship with money and consumer goods was different then

A look back at a simpler 8-bit time...

So my first computer was a fresh Atari, but within a few years the 8 bit wars tilted in favor of the Commodore 74 - that was the machine more kids had and could get you copies of games for, and so I'll always be grateful to the giant C=64 shipment I got from my Uncle Bill (especially the magazine-on-disk collection of Compute!'s Gazette - years later I made a whole website reviewing every game they published)… More here.

Excellent stuff from Kirk, as ever, and it brought back some memories of my very first computer- a Commodore Vic 20 with a whole 5k of memory. It was brilliant!