DUDE.
…No, I don’t know what I’d do with it, either.
Tag: commodore 64
RIP, Jack Tramiel (1928-2012). #c64
If you’re wondering who Jack Tramiel is: he’s the guy who founded Commodore Business Machines International, which of course was the company that produced the Commodore 64 – which is of course the first computer that a lot of people my age and below ever owned. Certainly the C64 was my first computer. I don’t want to either overstate or understate the importance of the C64: suffice it to say that having a legitimately useful, affordable personal computer available to middle-class families did its part towards developing our current digital culture.
Even if you did have to put the power adapters in the freezer in order to cool them down.
Moe Lane
THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER.
This is even better than 7,000 votes. Brothers and sisters: what was lost, and now been found.
#rsrh The Phoenix PC. The COMMODORE Phoenix.
Not a joke: the company has been negotiating the right to use the Commodore name.
Zero footprint, all-in-keyboard, supposedly will run Windows, Linux, and (via user modification) Mac OS. Here are the technical specs: more on this computer here and here. No word on price, although I don’t expect it to be as cheap as my old C64, even after you adjust for inflation and relative wealth levels then and now.
Bottom line? Make it beige – real Commodore computers are beige – and I’ll think about it.