Piers Anothony... yep, pretty much anything from him is great. But my favorite is "Battle Circle". It's a fairly simple story about America after a nuclear war, but I thought it was very special and I have a paperback copy I pick up about once a year and re-read it. Love that book!

Also, I don't recall the author (shame on me!) but look for "Phule's Company" and the others in the series. It's about a mega-rich man who decides to join the space foreign legion and ends up in command of the worst (and most fun) group of rag-tag soldiers... then manages to turn them into the elite, while fighting off corperate takeovers :) very fun stuff

Again, it's been a while so I don't recall the authors.... but

M.Y.T.H. Inc. M.Y.T.H. Inc. in action etc... wonderful books about a group of creatures on wild adventures. Starts off with a young mage learning that his master's demon is really nothing more than a inter-dimensional traveler and that most mythical creatures are just misunderstood folk.

A Sword for a Dragon, and Bazil Broketail.... again, fun books, about talking dragons that fight in an army. Sort of living tanks, if you will, and the dragonboys that attend them.

I started with the Vic20 and a 300 baud modem, although I don't recall which one. (I think it was a Commodore modem). Then I bought an adapter and hooked up a 1200 baud, which I then used to run a BBS on my C64 :) I remember thinking how much of a bigshot I was with TWO floppy drives, lol.

My girlfriend at the time, had one of the "portable" C64s... remember that one? Had a C64 and a diskette drive shoved into a suitcase with a tiny monitor. I think it was maybe 4 or 5 inches at the most. Man, I loved that machine!!

But when I got my Amiga 500 it was wonderful, I still think it was the best PC on the market at the time. I wished I still had it, but it was donated to Goodwill along with a ton of other stuff in the garage years ago. I didn't know it was gone until too late :(

p.s. I don't have this number any more, but for 15 years my phone number was 646-1541. I was still playing with a C64 at the time I got that, so I couldn't have been happier, heh heh.

I've worked in IT basically forever (since 1986) but had a real shock one day in the late 90s. A person called the help desk and asked if I could connect a PC they found in a closet. I said I would have to check it out, but if it had the right hardware, sure no problem. They said, "Well, it's got a screen and another big box that says diskette drive". I RAN up the stairs to their department... and I found a Commodore Pet computer and dual diskette drive!

After I explained what they had, they gave it to me. Being a big-time Commodore fan, I loved having something like this to play around with. It worked great and most of the BASIC programs I had I could re-enter into it and with minor tweaking, get it working.

I didn't do much more with it, but still, was saddened when my wife was donating some other old PCs I had laying around, she gave that one away too :(