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The VIC-20 (Germany: VC-20;[3] Japan: VIC-1001) is an 8-bit home computer which was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980,[4] roughly
three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the PET. The VIC-20 was the first computer of any description to sell one million units.[5]
Type Home computer
Release date 1980 (VIC-1001) / 1981
Discontinued 1985
Operating system Commodore BASIC 2.0
CPU MOS Technology 6502 @ 1.108404 MHz (PAL) [1] @ 1.02 MHz (NTSC)
Memory 5 KB total (expandable to 32 KB), 3.5 KB for BASIC Programming (expandable to 30.5 KB)
Graphics VIC 176 x 184 3-bpp
Sound 3x square, 1x noise, mono.[2]
Predecessor Commodore PET
Successor Commodore 64
Commodore VIC-20 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I remember it taking days to enter a program and then when the tape drives came out the fights in the stores to get one... I was bruised and scratched but after camping in front of Hills for 5 hrs til they opened with about 300 other people... I did get one. It was mostly women and I was one of the taller people there

I think the store only had 100 units and they were gone in the first 15 min of opening. Then it was just days at times to install from tapes

Yes.. I remember punch cards and huge floppies too