I never actually owned one of these, but I found one in our office. You may also wish to read the history of the C-64 to see how influential this little machine was in the development of the personal computer market.
And do I know this piece of equipment! Being from the Netherlands myself I guess I look at it from another side of the world as you are, but looking at it from this side I can only agree that this little machine was a revolution at its time and actually started modern home computing. Well found... Hewy