We were a Commodore 64 family, and with sales of 17 million (still the best selling PC of all time), so were many others.
You had to know some rudimentary BASIC (computing language) commands in order to load games. As far as I knew, games were the sole purpose of this box. They sometimes took several minutes to load. (Play Commodore games here.)
My floppy disk favorites were Zaxxon and Choplifter. Meanwhile my older brother was playing Zork and some role playing game that you played with others using something called a "modem." We were online in 1985.
Eventually we graduated to the Commodore 128, which seemed like it came from the future. But we still didn't have a mouse. Had to use the Apple IIe at school for that.
So do I qualify as a digital native? Wikipedia says in the widest sense of the term, yes. But it's generally reserved for those who grew up with 21st century technology. Guess I'll have to settle for being a digital forbear.
