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   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   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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