On 18 Apr 21  19:02:19, Mark Hofmann said the following to Nick Andre:

MH> The Vic20 was my first computer, too.  True story.. I won it in a Mother's 
MH> essay contest back when I was 10 or 11 years old.  It sat in my closet for
MH> months as at the time I had no interest in computers.  
MH> 
MH> One rainy day I decided to break it out and mess around with it.. The rest 
MH> history..

Other people I knew at the time had the C64, or an Apple 2, or an Amiga...
maybe a PC or Tandy. All of them thumbed their noses at the Vic20 as just 
a toy but I was sooooo stubbornly loyal to it because it was just fun to make
this thing do something with 3k of base memory and a tape drive. Countless
hours spent. 

When I found out that someone wrote a Doom port; THAT to me is a true loyal
grand-master programmer who used that system to create a work of art.

Lots of Demoscene stuff was impressive too... using undocumented interrupts 
and elaborate calls to the graphics chip.

Nick
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