When you think of a luggable computer, you might think of the old Compaq or — if you are old enough — a Kaypro. But you don’t see as many Commodore SX-64 computers. [The 8-Bit Guy] has wanted one for ...

The keyboard of the iconic Commodore 64. Thirty years ago, Commodore Business Machines released the Commodore 64, an 8-bit home personal computer that became an iconic cultural force. With its low ...

Way back in the Mesozoic era of computing (also known as the early 1980s), we didn’t have slick little netbooks or big, powerful desktops. Businesses that used computers at all generally relied on ...

As a child of the 80s, I didn’t have an Atari, an NES, or even a Sega Master System. My first console was actually our family’s first computer: the Commodore 64. It was a passable gaming system, but ...

It can’t get a senior discount, but it might as well be ancient history. The nearly 35-year-old hunk of machinery that emerged from a cardboard box in a Yorktown home, though, was ready. It said so ...

Before the Super Nintendo, and even before the original NES arrived in North America, I cut my gaming teeth on the Commodore 64. It was sold as one of the first personal computers, but to many kids of ...