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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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if it was a something like a c64 in the 1980s, it certainly was normal.
I don't think there were enough C64's produced for it to be "normal".
I was coding Fortran on punched cards then, I didn't know anyone with a computer at home then - they were still expensive hobbies. The Commodore was certainly part of opening it up, but damn few people had them.
I was definitely looked at as unusual at the time for doing any kind of "computer stuff".
in the mid 80s, the c64 was the best selling computer (afaik, still is to this day, the single best-selling model ever), sold like 2m+ units a year, outsold even PCs and apple, and had ~ 40% market share.
it was cheap, it had lots of software, and was accessible--selling at discount retailers instead of just computer stores and shops.
yea. it was 'normal'.
abnormal would have been an outlier like a trs80 or ti99/4a instead of one of the 'big three' of the day.
Normal for personal computers... which were abnormal at the time.
It was a Tandy 1000 in the 80s. Which was a weird computer to have, but worked well enough.