Happy 30th Birthday Commodore 64!

[Rodomoc]

Wow, 30 years already? I started serious computing on a 32K Commodore Pet. Then moved to the 64 where I dove in deep. I still remember the many nights typing in every program I could from the magazines of the time, etc... Peeking, Poking, and some ML towards the end. Damn I feel old now... I still have that C64 and it still works like a charm.

[bloodline]

Kinda confused, the Wiki page says in the first sentence....

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by the now defunct manufacturer Commodore International in January 1982.

But later on it says on the fact panel

Release date   August 1982.

WTF?

CES was in January x

[huronking]

I got mine somewhat late- in '86 after starting on the ZX81,  Ti99, and then the 800XL before then. Besides, I nuked the 6520 in the 'XL trying to build a ring-detect.

The world that existed on the other side of a 300 baud modem really made me wish I had a 64 until I found one with a 1541 and a spare Vic20 at a garage sale for $35.

Then I worked that summer for a 1670, a printer and another 1541.

Happy Birthday

[orb85750]

TI 99/4A (sold) to C128 (sold) to Amiga (still have my mint A500 from 1988).  Of course, I had to buy a used C128D too, but I have not gotten back into the TI.

[Drummerboy]

I still remember when they celebrated the first 10 years  :rolleyes:

Now 30 Years!!!  

Anyway, it not been for us, the  users keeping it alive, the C=64 would have died many years ago   :angel::angel:

Keep alive your C=Commodore Computer!.  I still have a several models, C=64/SX64/128/.

And you know, now you can get your C=64 (C=Amiga too!)in your Mobile - Smartphone and keeping alive in your pocket! :afro:

Long life to the C=64!! -- For me its like VW Aircooled Computer! (yeah!, i am VW/ Posrche Fan too!:cool:)

[RobertB]

There is a nice article on the Register (with a comment from Dave Haynie (I think)).

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/02/commodore_64_30_birthday/

Oops, the author has the wrong year of the end of C64 production.

Happy New Year!
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[Duce]

Man, such news makes me feel old, lol.  

Seems like just yesterday I saw a computer for the first time, a buddy had a brand new VIC 20 with the Datasette and I figured it was the best thing since sliced bread.  Up until then I'd only really played with the Pong box my folks had and the Atari 2600 I got for a Christmas gift as a kid.  I never did get a VIC or C64 when they were new, I got an Atari 800 XL as my first system and hated every moment of it until I got my A3000 and the computing world drastically changed for me.

Happy Birthday, old girl!

[danwood]

One would think CNN can get the picture right... :furious:

I can't see a CNN link in this thread, why, what did they show instead?!

[Kesa]

The singing floppy drive is probably the coolest thing i ever saw the c64 do. I don't know much about c64s though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o&feature=related

PS why can't i post youtube content any more? It's not working. I had to use a stupid link instead   :confused:

[youtube]5gnMgmlKi[/youtube]

[Amiga_Nut]

I've always said this but the C64 was the right machine at the right time and on balance it had the best of all worlds given the technology that was available in 1980-82 during development. May only have had 16 colours but you could get them all on screen at the same time etc etc. And SID was just revolutionary, a true analogue synth on a chip.

And it's great to see that for a change the best machine trounced everything in sales. The Amiga should have repeated the success of the C64 but by then people started buying NES or PC (both puke ridden rubbish in the 80s).

[Amiga_Nut]

CES was in January x

Right OK so I didn't really miss the party then haha

[persia]

The C64 was the iPad of it's day!

[commodorejohn]

The C64 was the iPad of it's day!

That's a load of crap, the C64 was a completely open and uncontrolled environment where you could do anything at all with any part of the machine, not some locked-down toy system designed to prevent users from installing anything not accepted as part of The Apple Experience.

Also, it had a real keyboard.