Dave Plummer

When was this?

79, 80.

Okay.

So what are we talking about?

Well, the big three had come out.

There was the TRS-80 Model 1, there was the PET 2001, and the Apple II came out roughly simultaneously.

Apple II.

Probably in retrospect, yes.

Well, I would probably give that to the Commodore 64.

It's hard to gauge the long-term impact, but I think the 64 itself probably influenced more people.

So that's my reason for picking that one.

You think so?

The sales are certainly higher.

So Commodore 64 sold a lot.

Yeah.

I mean, the numbers are hard to believe.

It depends which numbers you believe, but even the medium estimates are pretty high.

Well, the first thing I did was overheat the floppy drive on it, which was unfortunate because it wasn't a warranty machine.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, so we bought it from Computer House as opposed to one of the major retailers, which meant when it died, it had to go back to Germany or something to be fixed.

So I was left with no floppy, and so I had a cassette deck, which was the best you could do at the time.