Commodore SX 64 TV Ad Australian 1984

[Simcore999]

:-) Wow, never had seen that and yes it could have been a huge north-american success

[molestedmango]

LoL that's so sexist I love it

[Commodore64Dude]

OMFG! that screen is tiny!

[xadam2dudex]

I had one of these.. wish I still had it.. I remember when it first came out and Sears use to carry them.. I think it started out at $999 and finally went down to $399 after it was discontinued

[Ovidiu91]

Can you watch porn on that?

[sirbargearse]

I actually had the pleasure of using/ playing one of these in the 80's and I thought to my self at the time "WOW! THIS IS THE FUTURE!" LOL Never would have seen an iPad coming out back then!

[godthegourd]

they needed more words in their song. i memorized it on accident the first time i heard it.

[MrAgentStupid]

If only we could show to people of that time modern computers...

[5star555555555]

In soviet Russia, Commodore keeps up with YOU!!

[MattTheSaiyan]

Is it just me, or did every Australian commercial of the 1980s have at least one topless woman?

[ideahunter]

Is this the BEST script they could come up with to sell a computer? Are you keeping up with the commodore because the commodore is keeping up with you. Are you keeping up with the commodore because the commodore is keeping up with you. Are you keeping up with the commodore because the commodore is keeping up with you. Are you keeping up with the commodore because the commodore is keeping up with you. Are you keeping up with the commodore because the commodore is keeping up with you.

[spikeman14]

@ideahunter In a world of high technology, and ever changing views, in a world thats full of make believe, Commodore's good news!

[tatman180]

belly flop at 0:42 lol

[spikeman14]

What really let this machine down was the screen size. They should of used a larger display or possibly an LCD screen!

[MarcSola7]

@spikeman14 The computer was made in the 80's, they don't have Big Monitor's or LCD screens like we have right now.

[spikeman14]

@MarcSola7 I know, I do own a Commodore 64, and an Atari 2600. What I meant was they could of used possibly a bigger CRT or increase the size of fonts on the screen, at a loss of chars per line, or used an LCD Screen such as those used on electronic typewriters or large screeen calculators (Not LCD TVs like you think I meant! :P )

[KingNast]

@MarcSola7 They did have larger monitors, I had one of these in the 80's hooked up to a 14" commodore monitor. You could also hook it up to a tv using an rf modulator.

They didn't have LCD monitors, but compaq made portable PCs in the 80's that had orange plasma displays

[ciolamorta]

Pause at 0.17. He looks like Walter Bishop from Fringe. Maybe he was planning something on his SX...

[ersemola]

really a big monitor..

[Lachlant1984]

@DanielChristy19 I remember reading a few years ago that the Commodore company are coming back making PC's, I haven't heard anything about it in quite some time, so I don't know what happened in the end. Of course it's all very well for a company to relaunch itself after being out of business for many years, but it's not the same because the original development team and other members may not be around anymore or may not be involved with the relaunched company, it's really not the same.

[spikeman14]

@Lachlant1984 It happened about 3 years ago now, it happened and no one cared, they are generic chinese slim keyboard type PC's. CommodoreUSA bought the rights to sell the PC under the name Commodore but are still trying to aquire the Commodore logo used on the Commodore 64 and Amiga which is owned by Commodore LTD and part of Commodore Europe!

[TheSmacTalk]

00:42 ehh, i'd give that dive about a 2 out of ten.

[Oskarsom]

Now, telephone for 50$ is smarter than this :D

[MattTheSaiyan]

@Oskarsom But can that phone play "Manic Miner"?

[Furetgarcon]

amazing machine for the time and if your boss pissed you off you could beat him to death with the 15 pound computer... Awww the 80's

[liqube]

in sovjiet russia, commodore is keeping up with YOU!

[michaelboett173]

0:46 jeah, that dude is sitting in the sun. minimum 1 girl in the pool. And the SX64 gots his full attention. And now it comes: In the sun all what you can see on that screen is: NOTHING !!! (I've testet with mine!). So, is he gay??

[liqube]

0:42 rofl

[zorinlynx]

These days airlines would probably charge you extra to shove this into an overhead bin.

And good luck getting this monster through the TSA!

[halorivet]

they must of done some decent marketing seeing as c64 was the best selling computer of its time.

[nihilius32]

80s voodoo

[fenrat]

I loved my SX64 for a good 15 years. RIP.

P.S. I still have the keyboard!

[Danish4ever77]

I didn't believe it untill I saw it! A Commodore 64 laptop. The machine for the businessman, bring it to the pool.. ;o)

[scamp3bvfghty]

I'm still keeping up with my SX-64 today!!!

[16mmDJ]

at 0:09, that runner was totally checking her out!

[16mmDJ]

Thanks for uploading one of these commercials which is in good quality. the rest of them on youtube are all pixelated and the music is garbled and stuff :)

[kirbyyasha]

I still do my checkbook balancing on my Commodore 64, a nice homemade program I made in like 1990ish. And if I have to write a letter or something, I use the Commodore. My Commodore is still keeping up with me :)

[Trackball816]

If this ad had aired in the US, Commodore might still be making computers today.

[fremmenik]

@Trackball816 They still are! commodoreusa(dot)net/Home.html <-- with the www

[Trackball816]

@fremmenik

Holy crap, seriously?

You sure they're not just some in-name-only company who just holds the trademark, like how today's Atari used to be Infogrames?

Seriously, I thought Commodore died with the Amiga.

[fremmenik]

@Trackball816 Nope! its really commodore. They went bankrupt and went through some other companies (a music company owned it for a while) and then an american company bought the name, and went around buying all the old assets. they recently bought Amiga back from another company!

[Trackball816]

@fremmenik

Well, it's a shame I just got a new computer, then. I would've given them serious consideration for the nostalgia alone.

[richardmaudsley77]

@Trackball816 No, this "new commodore" is really just a guy living in a small house in florida, who's licenced the Commodore and Amiga names. He's claiming to be making new ones when really all he does is put stickers on old chinese PCs and sell them on. Plus he's been cought stealing other people's art to advertise with.

[richardmaudsley77]

@fremmenik No, stop talking.

[oldmits]

They are great machine's I'm lucky that i have two sx 64's in my collection And recently on ebay someone was asking

$1500 Australian as a starting bid goes to show what they are worth when they get older

[leobaby]

I have a working one as well, it's my favorite from my small collection.

[oldmits]

Both of mine are in working condition accept my collection is too big I have c16 vic 20 c64 128 128d sx 64 and some amigas and a lot of other stuff recently found a commodore tv looks like a 1702 monitor but with a inbuilt tuner enjoy

[AssemblerGuy]

10+ kilograms, 64 kilobyes of RAM and a one megahertz (not gigas), 8-bit CPU. They sold for the equivalent of US$3000 in todays currency in the stores back in those days.

Dang, that was a sweeeeeeeeeet piece of electronics back in those days -- though it just didn't catch on with the business community, as Commodore envisioned it in this ad.

Commodore -- they made great machines, but their marketing department ought to get shot at dawn...

[Torgoable]

@AssemblerGuy You got that right...I'm working on one now.

Compaq had cranked out the first portable not even a year before that, and it cost over 10 grand in 1982! Not only overpirced but it had poor performance and couldn't display graphics or color. The SX-64 blew it out of the water. If you heatsinked the PLA chip and a couple others, this thing could have a 10-year operating life...just wow.

When they say "they don't make 'em like they used to", they were talking about the SX-64.

[Lachlant1984]

@AssemblerGuy The marketing departments of most of these companies worked like that before the video game crash in the 80's, even afterwards they still hadn't learned, look at what happened to Atari and Commodore in the end.

[asphixmx]

I always dreamed having the SX... but it was soooo expensive! I had the Plus 4, de C-128 and later Amiga (500,2000,3000). Still want an SX...hope find someone selling it.

[kikencorp]

I have to learn that secret greeting among SX-64 users, being that I am one...

[ericaesop]

im kepping up wit my commodore