Yep - The Commodore 64 launched a lot of careers for programmers.

After college, the first desktop machine I programmed was the Commodore PET. It looked like it would be right at home sitting on Darth Vader's desk. (Star Wars and the PET both came out in 1977)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET

It had integrated monitor and cassette storage :) My employer purchased it to control scientific instrumentation via the PET's IEEE-488 interface. It was very odd for Commodore to integrate that interface in a personal PC as it was only used to control industrial / scientific instrumentation, although IEEE-488 hard drives arrived in the late 70's.

Ed Ferguson

Those Commodore PETs were really cool! I remember them as something like the C64's older brother.

Being familiar with assembly language was a huge boost for me when I started learning C in college.

- Michael

Not really moi related but just fooling with smoke and particles for effect. a mini burnout.

Oh - so that was you up ahead of me on I-5 North !

Ed Ferguson

My version of a RatFink Van

Dragster winner! :)

Awesome! Big Daddy would approve :)

Ed Ferguson

Pilou, Ed,
thanks, fun to do a cartoon.
Val

final version, added a typical character and improved the smoke.

Hilarious! :)