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Before Commodore came out with the Amiga in the mid to late 80's, there was tremedously successful and best selling computer of all time, the Commodore 64 in the early 80's. Too bad they were never able to replicate this same level of success with the Amiga.
In any case, today, Silicon Valley celebrated the Commodore 64's 25 years anniversary and Jack Tramiel, CBM founder, as well as many others such as CBM engineer, Bil Herd, Apple's co-founder, Steve Wozniak, Atari engineer and Pong designer, Al Acorn, were on hand to remember the "good" old days of the C64 and the rivalry with the Apple and Atari. Read more about it here.
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Re: Silicon Valley celebrates Commodore 64 at 25
Posted on 14-Dec-2007 12:35:53
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| The Atari ST I suppose was the C64 of the Amiga Vs ST war! It was much cheaper (initially) and seemed to do most of what the other machine could do! The ST shows that the cheapest machine is not always the best choice, although with the C64 I think Commodore did achieve the "Model T Ford" of computing!
Good article! Wish I'd seen the 8-bit version of Turrican, I bet it was amazingly hi-tech when it first came out!
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Re: Silicon Valley celebrates Commodore 64 at 25
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References trimmed.
A rough cut should be up shortly at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=504862715223996474&hl=en
I just noticed two typos while scanning the cut. I mistakenly rigged the date
as 12/11 (not 12/10), and it should be Monte Sereno, not Mount. This is what
you get for trying to do this quickly, but it takes about nine hours to
render, transcode and upload, so people can just deal with that for now.
The quality of the video is not very good because I had only a single camera,
there was audience activity I could not always get, and there were glitches
in the PA system. Robert's two camera video will undoubtedly be better, so
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Re: Silicon Valley celebrates Commodore 64 at 25
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Re: Silicon Valley celebrates Commodore 64 at 25
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Re: Silicon Valley celebrates Commodore 64 at 25
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Re: Silicon Valley celebrates Commodore 64 at 25
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