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Hi! I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC. And I'm a Commodore 64!
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$595??
Wow, the Commodore 64 was expensive for a boat anchor.
Not compared to the competition
IIRC, an Apple II was $1500, as was the IBM PC. Both had 48K base ram. The Commodore's graphics were better than anything else at the time as well. $595 seemed pretty good in comparison, especially since you still needed a floppy and monitor to do anything useful.
Yep!
And here's the Commodore ad that proves it. Also:
$595 seemed pretty good in comparison, especially since you stil
Actually, the C-64 would connect to any televison, all you would need is a tape or floppy drive.
C-64
I bought my first C-64 in 1983 for (I think) about $299. I used a small cheap TV and a cassette recorder for storage. It was like my first laptop! Later I upgraded to a monitor and 2 disk drives. I did my masters thesis (electronic music) writing programs to play the 3 voice SID chip (poke & peek!). Jeff Morris and I wrote and performed several music pieces for synchronized C-64's, controlled sythesizers using midi and MusiCalc, and played guitars etc. It was a blast and a great tool for its time. The 2 of us were like an 8 to 10 piece electronic orchestra. Later when I bought my first 386, it was a great game machine for the kids.
My 'Original' PC was also a Commodore 64
I remember staying up until three AM the first night I got my C-64. I hooked everything up, cracked open the manual and then programmed for almost four hours, every line of code had to be perfect and my cassette player was wirring away and then finally, alone in the dark, late at night, sitting in front of my flickering TV set in the living room, I was finished. I ran the program and waited as a few lines of code scrolled across the screen and then behold! A short song started playing from MY TV and it was glorious. Of course the song was, more like a jingle and only about 25 seconds long, but bits and bytes were doing it and that was the miracle of computing for me. Imagine, bits of code were actually 'interpreted' by the PC into music.
Now if I could just keep up to date on my anti-virus and windows upgrades for my six PC's at home, I'd be happy.
Beau
San Diego
What about the TRS-80 color computer?
Where's the love for that machine? I want a YouTube video for that computer!