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Homer J Simpson:


Bill Herd on the 40th anniversary of the commodore 64.

 Early days at Motorola, MOS and Commodore.


eugene:
I stopped listening when he said the C64 is "the most popular home computer ever built." I'm sure it depends on how you define "home computer", but still...

SiliconWizard:
While the video is obviously a bit biased, the C64 is factually the best selling home computer of all times.

The term has become a bit fuzzy of course these days, but back in the 80's, everyone knew what a "home computer" was. It was just a computer that individuals could reasonably afford, and meant for private use.

Please mention any other computer, not as a class/range of machines (like "PC compatibles"), but as a single, definite computer model, that sold as well?

RJSV:
   I could sit, in living room at night, after work, and type in various machine language pieces.  You could watch, it was so fast, for sequencing things, or even listing some hexadecimal memory blocks, at blinding speed...actually way faster than the 60 hz TV frames.
  Of course, using Basic was slow, but interesting, informal...(bought mine at Toys 'R Us...)

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 25, 2022, 07:34:47 pm ---While the video is obviously a bit biased, the C64 is factually the best selling home computer of all times.

The term has become a bit fuzzy of course these days, but back in the 80's, everyone knew what a "home computer" was. It was just a computer that individuals could reasonably afford, and meant for private use.

Please mention any other computer, not as a class/range of machines (like "PC compatibles"), but as a single, definite computer model, that sold as well?

--- End quote ---

I remember being at the shops in the lead up to that one particular Xmas and noticing the shoppers with the big c64 box slung under their arm or the box in the trolley. The amount of peeps gathered around the demo setup at the store was fascinating.

I found out later that there was a concerted deliberate push in my country at that time for that seasonal market. I think where Eugene was, the distribution might have been more tempered.

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