Commodore 64

The C64 has many different faces - but all incarnations remain compatibility. The best-looking C64 was perhaps the "Golden-C64": As there were over one million C64 in Germany Commodore produced a special series of 200 C64 in a golden case. They come up with a certificate that it is a real golden C64 and a number.
The C64C (Compact) was also full compatible to the old C64. It had a flat case which gave hardware extensions less space.
The combination of C64C and the first C64 had less chips and a new CPU: 8510 which was full compatible to the 6510. The perhaps worst basic of all homecomputers - Basic v2.0 - was never changed. The basic forced many C64-owners to learn assembly language and program basic extensions. Therefore most people know their C64 very well. And for the absolute beginner who don't want to learn assembly language, there were hundreds of basic-extensions like Simon's Basic and Exbasic Level II. Some of them are specialized for graphic or interrupts. Other programming languages did not have great success. Comal was used by some people.
Today the C64 is still be sold in some countries. Extension cards like the 8MHz-speeder and harddisks keep the C64 alive.

Computer:	Commodore 64
Release year:	1982
CPU/Clock speed:	MOS 6510/ca. 0,9 MHz
ROM:	20 KByte
RAM (expandable)	64 (512) KByte
Display:	TV/RGB
Text display:	40 *25
Graphics display:	320*200 2 colours
Graphics display:	160*200 4 colours
Colours:	16 colours
Sound:	3 channels mono
Operating system:	own
Size (in mm)	41020775

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