They’ve replaced the carpeting in the hall outside my office. It’s got that sickly-sweet smell of fresh synthetics. And for some reason it reminds me of the Commodore VIC-20 that I used to have…
It was my first computer, and I bought it with the proceeds from my paper route… I also got it about a year before the price dropped from around $300 to around $100, so in addition to giving me a way learn Basic and Assembly it served as a lesson in the economics of technology.
I think the place I bought it from had just been remodeled… Either that or we’d just re-carpeted the house at around the same time I got it. But for some reason I can’t smell new carpeting without remembering having the little thing set up on a table in the corner of the living room.