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Here are the C64's specs, not impressive by today's standards, but surprisingly engaging in its day.
Note the emphasis on sound -- sound consisting of more than beeps was revolutionary at the time.
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whyibother
27/02/2008 09:14 PM
Mine Still Works !! I had to go back to it after I "upgraded" to Vista.
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Tom
18/04/2008 05:42 AM
Though I never owned this machine, I did have the awesome Commodore Amiga 500. Didn't upgrade from it until 1998 ;P
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Forbin One
27/09/2008 02:47 AM
I still have several C-64s, a C-128, a Plus/4, an SX-64, at least one of every drive (except the MSD), RAM expansion cartridges, JiffyDOS-128, hundreds of floppy disks and cartridges, etc. My wife wants me to get rid of it all, but I won't! It represents a large portion of my childhood. While other kids were out getting into trouble, I was in my bedroom teaching myself how to program in 6510 Assembly Language or posting messages and chatting with the SysOp on a BBS at 300 baud!
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