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Commodore Business Machines introduced the Commodore 64 computer in January 1982 at a price of $595. This was an enhancement of the earlier VIC 20 with 64K RAM and a 6510 processor. This machine went on to become the best selling computer of all time, lasting until 1993 and selling 17 to 22 million units. Commodore announced the above SX-64 portable version of the Commodore 64 in January 1983. This was the first portable computer on the market with a color display, and was essentially identical to the regular C64 except for the lack of a cassette interface. In 1986 the GEOS operating system (for Graphic Environment Operating System) was released for the Commodore 64, which incredibly gave the 64K machine a GUI like the Macintosh and Amiga.


I still have one of these Sx-64's in perfect running condition !

ZaLith, you can find them on eBay

My first PC (I think it was 1985) was an Amstrad CPC 464 (in my sig) with a monitor that could display 27 colours! It ran on a 4MHz CPU and 64kB RAM (I remember upgrading to 576kB and was sooo excited!) It also had a built in cassette tape for loading games. All my friends had commodore 64's so I was a bit of a legend having the first external floppy drive.

hybridfan said:

I had ZX Spectrum, Dragon 32, Atari STFM, 386, 486DX2 66

Remember the "Turbo" button guys

I had forgotten about that.

i got my first one when i was 9 can't remember the make model though.

CommonTater said:

hybridfan said:

I had ZX Spectrum, Dragon 32, Atari STFM, 386, 486DX2 66

Remember the "Turbo" button guys

Yeah... like anybody ever turned it off???

You had to for some games or they'd run too FAST!

I didn't have or need a turbo button on my amstrad. With all that RAM it was lightening fast already