Looking back over 40 years, we forget how impaired these early 8-bit machines were. The VIC-20 had only a 22 character display. You could play blocky games with ROM cartridges, but otherwise your only interface was  BASIC, saving your data on a cassette drive. The RAM could be expanded to 32K if you used the ROM slot but then you couldn't play games. The Commodore 64 was a much better model when it came out because you could get a monitor and a rudimentary floppy drive.

Ambulance rides are expensive and not covered all that much by insurance.  I was angry about it at first but after thinking about it I calmed down and arranged a very good payment plan.