1981 Commodore® VIC 20 Close up of an 8 bit Milestone

Commodore VIC20 Close up, of the famouse 8 Bit Homecomputer. In deed one could say the C64 is nothing but a VIC20 in Rev. 3.x, and its true, take a close look back in the days. And this in fact is THE Computer that many of todays Computer-Geeks have had as their very first Computer at all. Good Memories included, 5KB of RAM, and 3.5KB for Basic, and it worked. (3.5 KB = 0.0000003 GB)

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[bloodnokian]

Damn this takes me back! I had one of these in 1982-1984 and then got a Commodore 64. The amount of games I programmed myself from magazines, best time ever when they worked, worst time ever going back and checking for that one extra . or ,

[chipwaver]

@bloodnokian OMG, I so remember that... typing in every single charakter of many pages of program code and basic commands... it was almost sadistic of many magazines to be sold without a compact cassette with the program on them... WOW! The kids today complain as they buy a new game and have to wait a few hours to get the latest updates for it, yeah that also sucks but not to be compared! :)

[crazyleg2006]

Had one for about a week...Typed in a program from BYTE magazine and got an out of memory error... Begged my parents for a c-64---Returned vic20 got the 64.... and I never looked back!

[chipwaver]

@crazyleg2006 understandable, but not every little Computer-Freak had such good Parents back then..

[chipwaver]

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[sstylianou]

I still have the old thing at home still works after all these years those were the days.

[chipwaver]

@sstylianou True! :)

[cubezero01]

I found a Vic-20 at a flea market for $5, it didnt come with the cords or games but it was just sitting there and i had to save it!

[arjunus]

Yes that was great fun this days.

I had a BBS true the phone line with a C64 and four 1541 disk drives. I had to cool them to prevent them from burning down. ;)

I had written the communication in Assembler. (small routine) and the program in Basic. Every byte used. 1200 baud.

It was a good education.

[jabg2011]

That reminds me, I'm sure I heard that someone bought Commodore, and that they are going to make C64 units which look the same as the old ones but have modern stuff inside.

[jabg2011]

Damn, I remember my VIC 20. I wish I still had it.

[NasherDezno]

I still have mine in storage, its next to my Atari 2600, two things I will never give up if for no better reason than the memories.

[sean12ab34cd]

@imafurryhusky and with all that power it only plays music :)

This clearly shows how a small amount of resources wisely implemented is far more impressive than a gimmick used only to lighten the wallets of the fools

[WindowsLover6767]

I just love seeing stupid circuit boards up close!!! >8D

[Ultramanyax]

WOOOOOOWWW 5kb ram...WOOD PC

[Daytonstars]

beautiful macro vision

[Qinetiqnl]

Omg, I totally forgot about the symbols 'under' all the keys! Great stuff