CNN is waxing nostalgiac about the 25 year anniversary of the Commodore 64 with a page full of personal memories of the machine.

Though my first experience with a personal computer was in an elementary school enrichment program and the TRS-80, the Commodore 64 was the first computer that I actually owned. I loved that machine, and for a good, solid 5 year stretch it was the only computer that I knew. Of course, this was 8-12 grade, so I mostly played games on it (Bard’s Tale III rocked!), but I also did some simple programming in BASIC and learned the fundamentals of how computers worked. My favorite part of it was the enormous floppy drive and how excited I was when I finally acquired my own. Prior to that, all the software had to be loaded into the RAM via a cassette tape drive that took FOREVER.

Now that I’m sitting here 20+ years later typing on my Dell with an Intel Dual Core processor and 500 Gigs of hard drive space and it’s hard to believe that it’s happened so quickly and yet been so long, all at the same time.

Anyone want to share their Commodore memories?