Can't read the article on this computer but, well... that's a shame to hear. I started using (playing with, actually) the C64 at such a young age that I could type on it before learning to write my own name. When my school district started phasing them out in favor of the (then) newer Apples, it broke my heart. Those dang newfangled contraptions had no bloody soul.
I wish it was easier to keep those disk drives alive, because I still have hundreds of floppies lying around.