This past weekend I attended the Vintage Computer Festival 7.0, held at the Computer History Museum here in Mountain View, CA. I was there as part of the Fresno Commodore User Group, the last remaining Commodore User Group in California. We had a bunch of Commodore equipment, past and present, on display (inlcuding the new C64 DTV Joystick). Here are my pictures from the event:
Category: Commodore
Commodore 64-in-a-Joystick from QVC
This past weekend I attended the Vintage Computer Festival 7.0 here in Mountain View, CA. I was there as part of the Fresno Commodore User Group (FCUG, the only remaining CUG in California) booth, selling some of our old Commodore stuff and trying to attract members for a new Bay Area chapter. (Email me if you’re interested in joining!)
My Commodore History
When I was in 4th grade (1980-81; age 9), our elementary school got its very first computer – a Commodore PET with 32K of RAM, named Rudy (for the salesperson who sold it to our school). It was a PET 2001 computer, but it had a “real” keyboard, rather than the so-called “chicklet” keyboard. It ran BASIC 2.0 and used an external cassette drive to load software. But I wasn’t in that class.
Overview of Commodore Computers
In the late 1970’s and early-mid 1980’s, one of the dominant players in the world of home computing was Commodore Business Machines. The most famous and widely used was the Commodore 64, which is to this day the record holder for number of units sold of a single computer model. But there were many others which are not as widely known. Here is a brief run-down of the Commodore 8-bit product line: