Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Perhaps I asked the wrong question...

My other friends mostly started out with BASIC because that was in the ROMs of their VIC-20s, TRS-80s, and Ataris. Even the one guy (with rich parents) with the Apple ][.

My parents bought my brother and I a //e in the mid-1980s, but they definitely weren't rich -- they had the same C-64 budget as all the other families in our area. We got the //e because my mom was a secretary for the local school district, which meant getting the educational discount. In school we mostly used the //+ which meant I was fortunate enough to have a * better * computer at home.