According to the BBC, veteran technology firm Commodore has just launched a new generation of high-end gaming computers at the Cebit trade fair in Germany.In 1982 I became the proud owner of my first computer! Did anybody else out there own a Vic 20? It arrived in the US and Europe in 1981, it was one of the first home computers to feature a colour display.
I then progressed to the Commodore 64, which became a 1980s icon. It remains the biggest-selling computer model of all time, selling more than 17m units worldwide. Do you remember how we loaded programmes and games by playing a tape in a cassette deck and typing 'load' and then 'play'. But what about the huge memory expansion cartridges which could be plugged into the back to up the RAM to 64kb !!! (I'm serious!)
Hi Gary,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the nostalgia!
We had an Amstrad CPC464 with colour monitor, and built in tape deck. I think it took about 25 minutes for the games to load... That left plenty of time to go out on our 'Grifter' bikes(with twist grip gears!) while we waited.
Those were the days...lol!