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Yep, we bought a C64 when I was about 12. I think my parents paid about $600 for the "keyboard". The floppy drive hadn't been released yet, so for the first few months we used


Until the floppy drive came out. I think we paid about $400 for the floppy drive. Do you remember when you discovered that the disks were dual sided and you could just cut a notch out of the other side of the 5.25 to use the back side?

Yes, about the same time, we still had "rented" phones, except that my parents had a phone that we owned and plugged it in. At some point the telco called and said something like "you're only renting one phone, but you have 2 rings on the line" and wanted us to pay extra or something. I remember my parents plugging and unplugging the second extension to fool the telco for a while.

We also had a remote control TV that was not IR. If you opened a beer can, soda can or sneezed, the sound would sometimes trigger the TV to change channels. I never did understand that because the remote wasn't noisy when you used it.