Guest Post: The Real Story of Hacking Together the Commodore C128
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The most popular computer ever sold to-date, the Commodore C-64, sold 27 Million units total back in the 1980’s. Little is left to show of those times, the 8-bit “retro” years when a young long-haired self-taught engineer could, through sheer chance and a fair amount of determination, sit down and design a computer from scratch using a mechanical pencil, a pile of data books, and a lot of paper.
Nice story! We have a couple here I need to find good homes for-- which reminds me, I need to post the inventory of vintage computers, books, software, accessories, power supplies, printers, monitors, etc. on my website! I don't want any of it to go to E-waste, but to be preserved and used by individuals who will value it.
I posted this on 6 Commodore / 8 Bit boards and there are only 7 comments. There are more comments on Hackaday.
Most of the hackaday comments are crap. If someone takes the time to share an interesting story about how a product was developed and how they invested years of their own time in it, I'm certainly not going to post replies telling them it how terrible of a product I thought it was.
