Greg Pagel: Blog

You might think this is weird, but I’ve been using a Commodore 64 computer a lot lately.  Your response, depending on your age and how many friends you had in high school, is probably: a) “A what?” or b) “OMG!  What a nerd!” or c) “OMG!  That’s awesome!”

I’ll assume that you’re the kind of person whose response was something like “c.”  Sorry about high school.

You recall the Commodore 64.  It was what folks now call an “8-bit” computer, roughly the same generation as the Atari 2600 game system, which was a little older, and the original NES, which came out a few years later.  It was the most popular home computer that had ever been produced.  It seemed like about half of my friends had one, and even though I wasn’t the most popular kid, that’s still a lot of computers.... (click "read more" to read more)