>> Now, all this is almost 30 years past. Maybe I misremember the time it 
>> took, but I doubt it.
>
> What I remember is that I was happy that it did it at all. Can't remember 
> being frustrated by the speed. More a challenge than a frustration.



Of course! You are perfectly right. I was just comparing the past to the 
modern times.



And although, with hindsight and compared to modern computers was terrible 
slow, at the time it was new and terrible fast. I remember the times of the 
slide-rule - compared to using a slide-rule a VIC was a racehorse. It even 
had 5x more memory than the eagle which landed on the moon. Those were the 
very first days on personal computing and even a pocket calculator was a 
new, expensive and exciting device.



I remember buying a 16k expansion for my VIC at a price (allowing for 
inflation) you can buy a quad core today. Then came graphics cards on the 
IBM PC - high-res in black and white. And everybody loved it. At the VIC's 
time this kind of graphics was better than the one a really expensive PC 
could deliver.



At one time or the other I did own or use most types of personal computers: 
owned a VIC, a C64, an Amiga, used Atari and IBM PC at university. PC-AT, 
PC-XT, PS2 - the whole palette. Never owned a partially-eaten fruit, though. 
;-)

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