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Title: Happy 30th Birthday Commodore 64!
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URL Source: http://www.myce.com/news/happy-30th-birthday-commodore-64-62922/
Published: Aug 7, 2012
Author: Wombler
Post Date: 2012-08-07 21:54:56 by A K A Stone
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Comments: 5
Thirty years ago, in August 1982, a new phenomenon entered the world of personal computing, when the Commodore 64 was born. With 16 colours, 64kb of RAM, a mere 320×300 pixel display, a 1.023MHz processor and what seems like inordinately long cassette tape loading by today’s standards, this doesn’t exactly sound like Earth shattering stuff, but this particular home computer captured the hearts and minds of a generation to become the highest selling, and by that definition, most successful computer of all time. The C64, as it became affectionately known, brought joy literally to millions selling over 17 million units and transforming the lives of a generation. Brainchild of Jack Tramiel, who sadly died in April earlier this year, the C64 was the follow on to the successful VIC-20 which in itself was the first computer to sell over a million units. Jack chose the name ‘Commodore’ because he wanted something military sounding (both Admiral and General were already taken) and coined the famous phrase ‘We need to build computers for the masses and not the class So do you have any fond memories of either the C64 or the games you used to play (Buggy Boy, Mission Impossible, Pitstop II etc)?
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
So did you keep yours?? It might be worth something if you did!! My first computer was an AST with about the same specifications as the Commodore.. I think my second one was a Gateway then all the rest have been Dells.....
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
Don't have mine anymore. But I was working on a job about 10 years ago. They were throwing away their commodore 128. I grabbed it and it is in the closet. I still do have a couple of Amigas though.
You can easily find free emulators on the internet.
I tried some of those emulators in the past. Not much success.
I didn't get my first computer, nor really learned much until 1998! lol, guess that makes me a "newby".
Commodore 64!
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