Enjoy this article by Sung J. Woo . It may focus on the Commodore 64, but I think it applies to most of us that were around in the 80s. — Paul (If you prefer, you can also listen to the audio version .) The slogan was on the back page of Compute! , a magazine I often bought from the video game store of the strip mall where my parents operated a gift shop . The advert displayed a trio of competing personal computers on the top half of the page, the Apple IIe, the Tandy TRS-80 III, and the IBM PC, the cost of each machine near a thousand dollars or well above it. The bottom half starred a family of three staring at a computer monitor showing the planet Saturn: mother on the left, father on the right, and the son in the middle with his fingers over the brownie-brown keyboard. “The Commodore 64. Under $600,” the final lines of the ad read. “You can’t buy a better computer at twice the price.” I sighed, heavily. Six hundred was cheaper than a grand, but it was still six hundred.…