Here she is: the Commodore C=64!
This shows the Commodre C=64 keyboard and a C=1702 color monitor:
Didn't you just live to hate the 1541 Disk Drive?:
(I had two of these hummers.)
Many of us used a brand name printer:
(I had an MPS 801.)
I used a modem which transferred data at a blazing 1200 baud:
We had tape drives long before it was popular for home computers:
Of course we used a mouse (or a joystick, or both):
Here's the baby brother: the Commodore VIC-20:
This shows several system set-ups as envisioned by the good folks at Commodore.
I scanned these images off the box cover:
...and don't forget the software, from some names long gone and some you will recognize:
Batteries Included made both Paperclip, an excellent word processor, and Consultant,
a fairly comprehensive data base product. Also, they came out with Paperclip Publisher, a
desktop publishing product for advanced layout of Paperclip files.
Berkeley Softworks developed the Graphical Environment Operating System, a "Macintosh
emulator" which brought the worlds of graphical user interfaces and Commodre 64 users
together.
An early-on favorite was Print Shop, with many editions, from Brøderbund Software.
The Fidelity ChessMaster 2100 was a product of The Software Toolworks, and was said by some to be
the premier desktop computer chess program of the mid-eighties.
From MicroIllusions came Sky Travel which was a complete planetarium for any date, any point on earth.
A really cool program; this was one of my favorites. Just see what you could pack into 64k!
Also, firmware was very important, with the flexibility provided by the Commodore C=64's cartridge
port. I used Partner, from Timeworks, which provided in a plug-in cartridge a desktop system
including many of the features found on desktops today.
More photos may be located at: www.hut.fi/Misc/cbm/pics/
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