Click here and you can have a Flash version of the Curta calculator, first introduced in 1948, right in your browser.
Posted on 04/07/2011 6:57:43 PM PDT by OL Hickory
The outside looks the same: a big keyboard with a full computer beneath it, and those fat-ass clickety-clack keys. The keyboard description is such a loving homage to that vintage typing sensation, it sounds downright pornographic: "...the new Commodore 64 features genuine Cherry brand key switches, which provide a feel much better than the original, with a lovely IBM classic mechanism and click sound."
Inside is where things get modern, because the whole system's had a major overhaul. The new C64 comes with a 1.8GHz Intel processor, up to 4GB RAM, runs Windows 7, and plays back Blu-ray discs. There’s a built-in C64 emulator so you can fire up some of your old favorite games.
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Always wondered what it would fetch on Ebay.
WOW I still have mine. Ok, its in a box in the garage but I still have it.
I also have an Amiga which is even better.
Dude, it’s like...retro.
I miss my old 5150 keyboard. That sucker was built like a tank. And the feel and click were most satisfying.
I still have my Pickett slide rule. BTW, my 1st computer was a Commodore 64.
Click here and you can have a Flash version of the Curta calculator, first introduced in 1948, right in your browser.
It was the 2nd computer I ever programmed in machine language. The TRS-80 Model III was the first.
I bought a ‘64 with the money I scraped up doing odds and ends when I was a teen. I spent almost every waking moment on that computer and bought every C-64 magazine I could get my hands on. My Parents thought I was obsessed. They we’re right.
Computing may have been crude and slow back then, but man, was it fun!
I still have my Atari 800XL. It still works and so do most of the games on the 5.25" floppies. I fire it up now and again for kicks. The whole mess with 2 daisy-chained 1050 floppy drives would probably get about 50 bucks on eBay. But I ain't selling.
I love vintage tech and that gadget is just too cool.
M.U.L.E. was an awesome game! I had an Atari 1200XL and adored that game.
There is even a version that will run on Windows XP!
Remember sitting at the keyboard all night typing in BASIC code from the latest 'Byte" magazine? Then typing 'run' and getting line errors? Time to go back and look for typos. What drudgery!
But you're right...it was fun.
It doesn’t come with a tape drive.
Come on man.
You never forget your first love...
I adore my 64!
You still have your Amiga? Awesome. Does it still work?
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