Commodore C64 Price Comparison

[dabaddchampion]

Shoot yeah man, and I paid 300.00for mine, my dad did pay 300. per piece at that time for us.

[thecooldude9999]

@BlueIsa7 thats not commodore its a rip off company with a shitty computer inside

[retrocomputerkidkris]

@BlueIsa7 ye but all it is modern pc parts inside its not the original commodore 64 if u know what i mean guys

[retrocomputerkidkris]

you have gotto love the retro systems

[DEXTERTEEOHIO]

Thank You Mom and Dad !! The money they spent on me was alot more than I realized.

[HardWarUK]

Don't forget this ad is for when the C64 was first out, around 1983-4. Within 2 years the price was practically half the £595 quoted here.. That's why the Commodore 64 is the biggest selling computer brand of all time, with 300 million sales.

[jjovereats]

...with 37.8KiB of usable memory!

[jbrough71]

I saved up ALL my money to buy a C64 in 1982! We crossed border shopped for is - as it was cheaper in the US than in Canada. Spent an entire week in Albany NY in order to avoid paying duty on it.

[pricecomparisons]

Cool collections

[themooddisorders]

POKE 53280,0

POKE 53281,0

POWER!

Nerd Joke, do you get it?

[matthewdoucette]

@themooddisorders don't get it, but it sets the screen to black i believe!

[Thegamer5150]

wish I could find an old one to fart with

[jkeelsnc]

No, they are not yet worth more than they were new. LOL However, they are collectible and a cool piece of early computing history. Show me any 8 bit machine of its time that could do the graphic and sound capabilities of the C64? Uhmm, NONE. At the time for the cost it was unmatched. Apple had more expansion capability but that is about it. I liked all computers but for the money the C64 was pretty cool.

[snake2006]

@jkeelsnc

The Atari 400 and 800 were close to what the C64 could do graphically and sound wise.

But there were more expensive than the C64.

[GIossary]

And Microsoft comes to blow them all away.

[rebornonline]

That's equivalent to about $2000 in todays money.

Don't you love your parents a little bit more now?

[joecassara]

@rebornonline A little over $1,200, actually. Almost $2000 if your folks bought a 1541 along with the C64.

[RetroToledo]

@rebornonline I feel that way, though my older brother hogged the damn thing so there was no love for me!

[effinyeah]

what a sexy piece of equipment gd

[chazwozzaUK]

64k??? (0064.0 of a Meg) they streched that memory to the limet... with good results.... Theres more memory in my microwave now...

[littlemexicantheif]

i could not hold one search on that one

[jrag1000]

lol and today none of these are worth more than $0000.25

[Balage78Szfvar]

But yes..they're so old that people collect them and because of age and rarity their prices are going up...I collected some...

[Herbarius]

as collector's items those are actually worth much more than that ;)

[OBSysteme]

@jrag1000 I'd say they are more worth like 30 to 100$ depending on what comes with it, but that is simply just because they are common on the market due to their past success (C64 = the most sold computer model in history, from 1982 to 1992).

People today are not able to write command lines, which lowers the demand for these little jewels, but everybody should have their own C64. Beats using today's computers as over-sized DVD players.

[jrag1000]

@OBSysteme

well worth more considering just about every game company in existance got their start on the C-64 platform, from Activision to Sega.

[OBSysteme]

@jrag1000 their're worth more in my esteem, but truely, you can get them super cheap on ebay, let alone local flea markets.

[AtariAndre42]

@jrag1000 AHUM, Activision started on the Atari 2600. They also made lots of games for other systems that were popular those days, not just the C64.

[batavias]

$595!!!! Thats outrageous....Suprised my dad got me one when i was a kid...

[whattheheck1000]

That's about 1300$ in 2008 dollars.

[Codcat]

@whattheheck1000 $1300*

[jjovereats]

@batavias now we got svhs

[tom444s]

Yezzzz! What a revolutiuon! says tomb from Salzburg, Austria

[jbones]

didn't realize the 64 was that much when it first came out. definitely king of the 8-bits. spectrum, atari, amstrad, and apple all lost.

[derSchweiz]

Windows XP 64bit on a Commondor 64 :D that would be awsome!!

[amiga2000]

Hey! How about a handheld C64 on a Nintendo DS? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=9MN3fYIzQSc

[videogameknowitall]

Commodore was pretty proud of themselves...

[videogameknowitall]

I'd thought I'd bring this up...

Actually the prices of the IBM, Apple, and the Atari home computers were actually quite less than that(minus the software, storage device, keybaord, mouse, and screen. Those prices would come into an effect if you were to get the "fully loaded" top of the line models of those systems. And the Commodore 64 that they show is the basic model, and at that price would have no software, storage devices, keyboard, mouse, and screen.

[leszken]

This price comparison seems to be true. Better PCs costed much much more.

[videogameknowitall]

And once you added everything the system would cost probably just as much as the other computers.

[nicolunacba]

The commodore 64 is compatible with Apple's mouse and joysticks. It had a lot of sotwares and games. Using the Microsoft Basic Standar, is 95% Compatible with others basic programs made with another plataform (excepting Apple, it use another Basic).

Second, the price include: disk 1541 (disk 5 1/4), Cassete player and recorder and a Basic user's manual (in other countries includes 5 Basic manuals).

[videogameknowitall]

That's ture.

[nicolunacba]

the commodore 64 is 100% with apple and msx printers and isso easy to connect. Also, the Commodore (in general) can be connected to a Monitor (RGB or DIN 5 port) or a TV (RCA R/F connection). So, the Commodore 64 was the best computer that you can buy in 80s

[Stefan969]

U can´t even use a basic programm from a VIC20 on a C64, u have to do changes.

The price sure don´t include a floppy disk or casette recorder.

They compare the C64 with the Atari 800 (not 800 XL), so this must be a very early C64 comercial.