computoman
03-20-2010, 09:15 PM
Commodore computers.....
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/commodore-computers-make-a-return-this-year-20100319/
beaird
03-22-2010, 03:33 AM
Too bad it's turned into just another pc. I was an early adopter of Commodore computers back in the day, had a VIC 20 C64 a C128 even an Amiga before turning myself over to the pc world. I can remember sitting in my room for months on end, only leaving because I was forced to go to school, programing my C64 knowing that if I turned it off I would loose all my hard work. It took way too long to copy anything to the casset deck, yes I said casset deck, to shut the thing off so I would have to remind my mother not to mess with it while I was away. LOL oh the days of old how they pass with never ending stride...
Those where some ground breaking pc's back in the day, the Amiga for instance was a TRUE multi tasking pc, not task swapping, it could actually run multiple tasks simultaneously. I even had the A590 HD expansion with a 512 MEG HD and 2MB of RAM installed in my Amiga 500 which was huge for a home pc in that time period. Some of the higher end Amiga's, the 3000 series and up, where used in early video production with the addition of an addon card called the Video Toaster. A lot of the early digital editing you saw on television back in those days where most likely done on an Amiga.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out, as I understood it at the time Gateway purchased the technologies and I believe a company named Tulip purchased the Commodore trade mark.
Links:
http://www.commodore.ca/default.htm
http://amiga.resource.cx/models.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster
computoman
03-22-2010, 10:41 PM
Had my share of c= stuff too. Took a 6510 assembly class from Jim Butterfield himself. I learned a lot from him. Cool guy. Wrote my share of code for a contractor that did biz with the major software houses on commodore equipment. Years,ago, when I was teaching, I used the old c=64 to create and print tests.