Back in 1987, my parents bought me my first computer. It was Commodore 116. Rubber keyboard, only 16 kilobytes of RAM. That sounds funny these days but it was great technology then. Commodore 116 had new sound and video chipset offering a palette of 128 colors. Programming language was BASIC 3.5 and it had commands for sound and bitmapped graphics (320×200 pixels), as well as simple program tracing or debugging. Here is how it looks like:
It had no CD rom, nider floppy drive. It used tape » Read the rest of this entry «