Here in Mexico 1985, our family got a bare C64. My older brother, wasted half of his saturdays typing programs that where printed in Ahoy and Compute! (a Mexican magazine for 8 bits computers). Me and my little brother, waited until he finished and played together at 1 am on sundays. At last, all the happiness went away when the 64 was turned off.
This happened for half year until my father bought the Datassette and we could store these programs.
A year later, we got the 1541 (second hand) and a new world began.