Funny short story: today, a CMD HD with 80-megabyte storage solution for the Commodore 64/128 just sold for $375 shipped on ebay. That comes to roughly $4800 per gigabyte, with NO manual and NO warranty. I was tempted earlier today at BestBuy for a 1-terabyte storage solution that connects to your home router for one-button [...]
Posts Tagged C64
The Price of Storage
Mar 28
Running VICE
Mar 13
VICE is a conglomerate of Commodore 8-bit emulators. For the inexperienced user looking to do some retro-gaming from those wildly popular machines from the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s, it can be a daunting and frustrating task to operate those “friendly” computers. Particularly because you had varying-sized game cartridges, floppy software, cassette software, and [...]
‘Low End’ Computers (1985)
Dec 13
Ran across this info program from that day chronicling what the home computer giants, Atari and Commodore, were doing and envisioning. Of course, Atari got Jack Tramiel, former CEO and founder of Commodore, or even they would not be in this picture. It was cool seeing a glimpse of the (new) Commodore 128 and hearing [...]
With all the tinkering I have been doing lately with 8-bit computers, I decided to expand my existing collection to include a Commodore 64C computer, 1581 diskette drive (3.5″), and 1902 RGB monitor. All equipment is in excellent condition, complete with original boxes. The most satisfying part is that I was able to last-second outbid [...]
