Came across this while cruising around:
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-895-9.html
http://www.oldcomputers.net/vic20.html
5K (3.5K usable). wow. We also had the tape drive. Wicked. Ask me how we searched for programs on a tape…
And for the record, our *second* computer was an (original, not a clone) Apple IIe with dual disk(ette) drives. My buddy had an Apple IIc, and my future neighbour had an Apple Lisa.
(Ironic how I am posting about one of my old computers, the Apple IIe, which was codenamed “Diana”, on this, the 10th year of Diana’s death.)