Wednesday, 4 January 2012

The Commodore 64 Is 30 Years Old


The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by the now defunct manufacturer Commodore International in January 1982. Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of $595. The C64 featured 64 kilobytes of RAM, and had favourable sound and graphical specifications.

It is commonly known as the C64 or C=64 (after the graphic logo on the case) and occasionally as the CBM 64 (for Commodore Business Machines). It has also been nicknamed the 'breadbox' and 'bullnose' due to the shape and color of its initial casing.

1 comment(s):

Peter Marmorek said...

My first computer. God, I loved that beast.