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There's this movie-props-for-rent-company in Vienna's Schönbrunnerstraße, and from time to time they give away some of their stuff for free. I learned that Commodore, the company that produced the legendary C 64 (my first experience in the world of "computing"), also manufactured calculators. Quite big and heavy ones, but, you know, those were the times...
This is what the computer looked like when I got it. The photo doesn't do the yellowing justice here, as it was hideously yellowed. I knew right away this needed some retrobriting treatment.
The very 1st computer I ever used. I believe we programmed it in BASIC, to do various things on the screen, like low-end graphics. We would save our work on to a cassette drive, and printed with an early Dot Matrix printer. We never had a floppy drive or external hard drive. When the computer was shut off, what wasn't saved to the cassette was lost.
If I remember correctly, my first project was to type a recipe for mint chocolate chip cookies, save it to a cassette, and print it on the local printer. State-of-the-art for the early 1980's! Eventually, we migrated to the Commodore Vic 20 & Commodore 64.