Back to 7th January 1984...
... and the day my father returned home with a Commodore 64, 1541 disk drive and MPS 801 printer. Most of my youth was spent programming this beige bread-bin, and I have no doubt this led me on the path of my IT career (sorry school and your BBC Model Bs!).
Great to see that the Commodore 64 is being celebrated! Pretty disgraceful that Commodore appears to be airbrushed from IT history. Even recently, Steve Wozniak was claiming that Apple had the first million selling computer...er no, that accolade goes to the VIC-20. History, as they say, is written by the winners...
@Peter Gordon (slowness of the 1541 disk drive) - this appears to be more cock-up than conspiracy... Due to the decision to use the VIC-20 style of case , the production engineers *removed* the high speed lines on the PCB. When it was discovered, it was too late - the first batches of C64s had already been passed to the sales channel...
Brian Bagnall's book "Commodore: A Company on the edge" is a must-read for any Commodore fan.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
