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Originally Posted by Ocala Mike
I'll go you one better. My son's first computer was a Commodore VIC, then he graduated to a Commodore 64. This was in the early 80's when he was in his teens.
Dad (me) didn't enter into the home computer age until much later, 1996 or so, with an IBM clone that I bought off some nerd.
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My first computer was a PET with the calculator keyboard. The second was a VIC 20. The third, fourth, fifth, ... were C64s. Somewhere around 1985 I bought an IBM clone with two floppy drives and no hard drive.
When the price got down to around $200 or less Commodore had this policy where they'd repair it for a flat $59. You shipped them the computer and a $59 money order. But they didn't actually repair it. They just trashed it and shipped you a new one. Their wholesale price was $50 so they were making $9 on the deal.
My first programming job was on a Hewlett-Packard mini with about a dozen terminals. The hard drive went bad and it cost $100,000 to replace it. It was a 128 megabyte hard drive. Each user was allotted 64K of the mini's memory. Someone suggested we trash it and by everyone a Commodore 64. They finally did trash it, bought about 50 IBM clones and put them all on a LAN.
