I wish
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| Author | Content |
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| djohnston Apr 22, 2011 1:15 PM EDT |
that this was a real offering from Commodore. Unfortunately, it appears to be, once again, just smoke and mirrors. On their home page at http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_Home.aspx is the prominent message "Available Now for Pre-order". $695 for commodity hardware in a retro-looking keyboard case is pretty expensive. The last "innovative" Commodores didn't come from Commodore at all. The "computer in a joystick" Jeri Ellsworth built that emulated a C=64 and ran 30 video games was innovative. She also designed the chip which was used in the C-One, which was a recreation of several Commodores on an FPGA board. |
| JaseP Apr 22, 2011 2:09 PM EDT |
The retro system is $595. But I suspect that it's a marketing thing. The original C=64 went for that when first released. |
| theduke459 Apr 22, 2011 3:07 PM EDT |
Yep, those guys who dropped their money on the VIC-20 were **SUCKERS** - glad I saved my for an unbelievable 64K C=64!!! Now *that* was computing! |
| moopst Apr 23, 2011 2:35 AM EDT |
I was all set to get an Atari 800 with 16kB when the C=64 came out around Christmas time. So Atari loaded it up with 2 more 16k memory modules to bring it to 48k and for the same price! Score! |
| JaseP Apr 26, 2011 8:30 AM EDT |
Oh, yeah,... Those were the days... I actually started to learn 6510 assembly programing... STARTED, that is... never got anywhere... |
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