Commodore 64 commercial (1982)

[HardWarUK]

Think of the C64 games we got that ran in that 64K - how many would never have seen the light of day if the C64 had had 16K like other computers of the day? It would have been easy for Jack Tamriel to leave out the extra memory and make a bit more profit, but he didn't, and because of it we got titles like Alter Ego, Little Computer People, Sentinel, Portal, Gunship and Ultima 1!!!

[christo930]

I didn't know you could get a PC with 16k of ram, unless they weren't talking about the 5150 (the original pc) and just some other IBM computer.

[Pfahli94]

For under 600... Elephants?

[computerfreaq17]

How many elephants by today?

[compupranks]

@computerfreaq17 Uh 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,­000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00­0,000,000,000!

[megamarsvin]

@computerfreaq17 If we take 4 gigabytes to be the 'standard' for today it's 268,435,456 elephants. :D

[Guilmon470]

It probably had like a whole megabyte. XD

[chica476]

wow, $1565 for that much memory... sterling.

[bernyqueen]

Yeah, insted of intel inside we have elephants inside

[Billbill80s]

So let me get this straight. The Elephants added how much memory?

[TheAppleMan100]

@Billbill80s hmm judging how much RAM was there back then the commodore 64 had about 64 kB of RAM. and the IBM PC had 16kB so each "Elephant" adds 16kb of RAM so its 16*4=64. :) god im so bored to figure that out.

[whattheheck1000]

@Billbill80s 16K for each elephant.

March 20, 2011 2:45 pm

[angelpichu1]

i am starting to wonder if elephants reallynever forget...

[gamerguycod]

penis

[ZaoMonichi]

600 dollars?! BITCH!

[TheDutchGame]

So, the commodore 64 was elephants in it? :o

[saintaureus]

I don't get it. The IBM-PC is 1 depressed-looking blue elephant, and the C64 is 4 depressed-looking blue elephants?

[Emeengor]

@saintaureus the elephant is an animal known for its good everlasting memory.

So the comercial wants to say that the commodore had 4 times the memory capacity of an IBM for less money

[harleykman]

$600 in today's money is equivalent to $1300.  (Google's inflation calculator)

Not exactly cheap. No wonder my parents only bought one piece at a time - One christmas I got the C64. Next christmas I got the 1541 drive. Next christmas I got a printer. Plus a few Atari games.

[oiyabastard]

GIGAPHANTS?

[lolol1234567890ful]

@oiyabastard megaphants

[adryanv]

@oiyabastard no KILOPHANTS!

[AussieSong]

LewyLewis made the Commodore 64 pump colors

[Ferrorschini]

What would be then my Memory with 12 GB Ram, 2 GB on Graphiccard and 1000 GB HD ?

[NEO117]

Over 9000 bragging rights

[hugothenerd]

So fucking bragging.

I think i hate you.

[teoet75]

38911

[LBcoyote]

Exactly! ;-)

[Davidsh13]

OMFG 640 bytes of RAM!!!

This is so powerful *_*....

WAAAAAAW

Lots of memory, I can even load my pixel I draw today at Microsoft Paint on that Commodore.

[erjohnson227]

haha nope, 64 THOUSAND bytes, lol.

[Davidsh13]

You mean about 64 megabytes of ram? Cool, I can load Little Fighter on it! :DDDD

[appleaddiction]

about 6.4 megs actually. lolz :P

[aaroninclub]

yea, saying that makes it sound bigger!

[nicolunacba]

I don't want to say something about the memory, the pixel, etc.

I just want to say you that

64 KB = 64000 Bytes

or exactly

64 KB = 65536 Bytes (1024*64)

[xero73k]

actually

64KB = 64000 Bytes

and

64KiB = 65536 Bytes

[LBcoyote]

Technically speaking lower letter k is for kilo (1000), so 64 kB = 64000, and by convention 64 KB=65536, although both had been used as 65536 with computers. Anyway, this distinction wasn't possible for mega and larger so they proposed Ki, Mi etc. which is good imo.

The best are hard drive manufacturers which have been declaring the sizes of disks in MB and GB, not in MiB or GiB, just so it would seem that their drives are somewhat larger.

[recto89]

I remember when 1MB was a big deal back then. and now I hear about 1TB hard drives.

[fenriz218]

@recto89

1 MB - are u mad!? Who could imagine such a thing? Gigabyte? Off to the laughing house ... back then ;)

Thinking of the old floppies makes one feel like a caveman

[CSXer]

I got one of these with tape drive for my graduation in 83. Didn't cost anywhere near $600!

I hear they're a collectors item now. Almost bought one from a junk store for $20 a while back just to say I had one.

[harleykman]

@CSXer

The Commodore CEO dropped the C64's price rapidly, in order to put Apple, Atari, IBM out of business. It eventually dropped to just $150 in 1985, and it forced Coleco, Texas Instruments, and Radio Shack to give up.

IBM survived thanks to big business.

Apple survived thanks to schools.

Atari survived thanks to its profitable gaming business.

[g4ngzta420]

@fenriz218 HA...U SAID old floppies

[Davidsh13]

That was a joke... You know,,,

[tippete123]

owowowowow

[EliaForce1984ita]

I still think that Americans are always rich..

[rekcaHrepyH]

Oughta be enough for anyone.

[poopskinTheLiar]

Hint: 640k > 64k. of course, the C64 has Turrican and such, so it's awesome too.

[ciaranrulz10]

lol for under 600

[linuxlove4004]

but not over 9000 :P

[EliaForce1984ita]

9000??

THIS IS MADNESS

[linuxlove4004]

NO.

THIS

IS

SPARTA!

k enough memes let's talk about hte Commodore 64 now :P

[EliaForce1984ita]

This.

Is.

COMMODORE

6-FOOOOOOOOURRRRRRRRR

[luigi90900]

@linuxlove4004 Over 9000 Bytes!

[RoderickStrong]

I remember this commercial

[nytrox84]

what centre the sex?

[EliaForce1984ita]

The Elephants xD

[nytrox84]

"facepalm"