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The advantage was, that it was pretty much affordable :-) But the keypad was really horrible...

It was only because a single key press entered an entire command that it was even possible to write programs on the thing! Still it kept me amused for hours and I created a number of programs on it.

Ah, ok. This was too long ago for me to remember exactly. We had the 48k ZX Spectrum which was a decent machine (but the keyboard sucked). C64 reigned king though, especially with a floppy drive.