@pantallica963 if it wasnt for Steve Jobs we can say goodbye to Apple long ago that fucking company and their overpriced products..but i have to respect them for the Iphone they started everything.
600 dollar for the thing and remember this is like 1970 - 1980 so less pepole had more wealth so in speaking this thing would've costed around 2000 dollar nowadays.
Those computers designed new generations of computers. Without them we wouldn't have the computers of today. Find a C64, plug it in and it'll still work. You'll still be able to do spreadsheets, databases and word processing. Video and audio have come a long way, then again we've had that on other devices since the early 1900's.
Of course you had to know how to use a computer in the 80s which the typical 90s ritalin retard would never figure out without pointing an arrow at pretty pictures.
Under $600 for 64 kilobytes of memory... HAH! And that's not even adjusted for inflation.
It's downright hilarious how little memory old computers had. This was cutting edge stuff back in the day, but it's funny to think that I've got more memory on my ten dollar flash drive than a very expensive computer.
@Zernium Well, the C64 came out at a time when RAM was insanely expensive. It wasn't until the last 10 years or so that that memory prices really started to drop.
@Zernium That was allot of memory, and you could/can do allot with it. Check out some of the games for the C64, it was somewhere between the Nintendo and Atari 2600 as far as graphics were concerned. But its sound was pretty phenomenal.
By translation of dollar value over a span of 20 years the commodore costed nearly $2,000 by todays dollar value. It took forever to load and the games were no better than Nintendo or Atari. It was a grossly overpriced pile of... Just imagine what we have now will be a commodore 64 to our children.
@PopcornCoolie C64 was not overpriced. It had the most bang for the buck in it's class. Apple II was mega expensive and didn't even have hardware sprites or on-board sound. PCs at the time were little more than glorified typewriters.
At the time, when 16K of ram was considered adequate, 64K was an unheard of amount of memory, and the price of ~600 bucks was unbeatable.
Commodore leveraged the fact that they owned MOS. Makers of the 6502, it allowed them to undercut all the competition.
Don't worry, Apple is used to overpricing its products.
jcrowley1985 1 month ago
64k of memory?? thats amazing.
mandiscorpio 2 months ago
The comments here are remarkably ignorant even by YouTube standards.
NBLP7096 3 months ago 2
AHAHAHAH this sooo funny imagine they see our today computers
zero00tolerance 3 months ago
As for gaming, Commdore 64 was the system to get
Utoobyourself 6 months ago
When someone asks me "Mac or PC?" I say commodore.
Stiny114 6 months ago
And Apple is still expensive as fuck.
pantallica963 9 months ago
@pantallica963 if it wasnt for Steve Jobs we can say goodbye to Apple long ago that fucking company and their overpriced products..but i have to respect them for the Iphone they started everything.
zero00tolerance 3 months ago
And this is $595 in 1982 dollars.. that's what, like 2-3 thousand dollars today???
bwitz72 1 year ago
600 dollar for the thing and remember this is like 1970 - 1980 so less pepole had more wealth so in speaking this thing would've costed around 2000 dollar nowadays.
TH3Mitch 1 year ago
This makes me want to go back to the past with my 16 gb ipod and sell it, i would be fucking rich
KazumaBR 1 year ago
damn imagine a pentium 4 at that time
Draco04 2 years ago
Those computers designed new generations of computers. Without them we wouldn't have the computers of today. Find a C64, plug it in and it'll still work. You'll still be able to do spreadsheets, databases and word processing. Video and audio have come a long way, then again we've had that on other devices since the early 1900's.
Of course you had to know how to use a computer in the 80s which the typical 90s ritalin retard would never figure out without pointing an arrow at pretty pictures.
19psi 2 years ago
i had a vic 20 pain in the ass to program games but cutting edge for a kid like me
bstarner69 2 years ago
Under $600 for 64 kilobytes of memory... HAH! And that's not even adjusted for inflation.
It's downright hilarious how little memory old computers had. This was cutting edge stuff back in the day, but it's funny to think that I've got more memory on my ten dollar flash drive than a very expensive computer.
Zernium 2 years ago
@Zernium Well, the C64 came out at a time when RAM was insanely expensive. It wasn't until the last 10 years or so that that memory prices really started to drop.
Akira625 1 year ago
@Zernium
Remember the time when 8MB graphic cards cost 400$? That was around 13 years ago...
angriffsritter 1 year ago
@Zernium That was allot of memory, and you could/can do allot with it. Check out some of the games for the C64, it was somewhere between the Nintendo and Atari 2600 as far as graphics were concerned. But its sound was pretty phenomenal.
psyjax 1 year ago
64k LOL!!!
arankenny23 2 years ago
I would 1500 for that much power, just imagine the computing possibilities!
Thewilyranger 2 years ago
64k pwns! My uncle had one with a bunch of games on it. I didnt realise how expensive it was until now. Im suprised he let me use it
phatmanxxxl 2 years ago
600 dollar .. for 64k RAM ... ehh, wow???
OMG, that's... just too much O_o
expensive as hell
DragonUltraMaster 3 years ago 12
progress
dtfageet 2 years ago
@DragonUltraMaster It was the cheapest PC of the time, show respect
ryanredz 1 year ago
I thought my Xbox 360 & PSP was expensive. And back in the 70s/80s, you could buy a lot more with a Dollar than you could now.
aceofhicks 3 years ago 15
By translation of dollar value over a span of 20 years the commodore costed nearly $2,000 by todays dollar value. It took forever to load and the games were no better than Nintendo or Atari. It was a grossly overpriced pile of... Just imagine what we have now will be a commodore 64 to our children.
PopcornCoolie 3 years ago 6
it was a pile of......... enormous amounts of fun and learning in it's day!
sonick808 2 years ago
@PopcornCoolie C64 was not overpriced. It had the most bang for the buck in it's class. Apple II was mega expensive and didn't even have hardware sprites or on-board sound. PCs at the time were little more than glorified typewriters.
At the time, when 16K of ram was considered adequate, 64K was an unheard of amount of memory, and the price of ~600 bucks was unbeatable.
Commodore leveraged the fact that they owned MOS. Makers of the 6502, it allowed them to undercut all the competition.
psyjax 1 year ago 3
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Lol now you can get thousands of times more than that for hundreds of dollars less. Commodore sucked.
whassup9097 3 years ago