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Most talk computer today is the Commodore 64. The Commodore 64 personal computer, released in August 1982, became the best selling single computer model of all time, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The Commodore 64 is commonly referred to as the C64; other less common names include CBM 64/CBM64, C= 64. The Commodore 64 casing has affectionately been nicknamed the “breadbox” and “bullnose” due to its shape.

The C64 competed in the fractured personal computer industry with the Commodore PET and the VIC-20, among others. Introduced by Commodore Business Machines in August 1982 at a price of US$595, it offered 64 kilobytes of RAM with sound and graphics performance that compared favourably with later IBM compatible computers of that time.

If you have one C64 you must be very lucky because today it’s considered antique and sooner or later a working Commodore 64 will be priceless

Police combing through the house where Natascha Kampusch was held captive for 8 1/2 years said Tuesday they made an unusual discovery: her captor, a communications technician, used an obsolete computer — and his odd choice now threatens to complicate their investigation.

Maj. Gen. Gerhard Lang of the Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau said kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil, who killed himself by jumping in front of a train within hours of Kampusch’s escape on August 23, relied exclusively on a Commodore 64 computer — a model popular in the 1980s but now considered an antique. Via CNN

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