Comment by dusted

As a kid, I actually had an Olivetti 8088 before I got my C64, and when I got that.. Well, it blew my mind on many levels, not only were there great games, but the computer booted right into a programming language! It cemented in my mind, the concept that computers were first and foremost meant to be programmed by their users. Knowing this helped me immensly as I moved back to the PC, DOS and Windows didn't expose this so clearly to my 10 year old brain, but the C64 had shown me that it must be possible, that there must be something "behind" the GUI, and it kept my interest in finding out what it was,and how to do it.