Happy 30th, C64 - comp.sys.cbm

<http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/02/commodore_64_30_birthday/> I shall fire up the machine and have a couple of games in celebration. Cheers, Ian -- Check out Proto the album: <http://studioicm.com/proto/>

Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> wrote: > <http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/02/commodore_64_30_birthday/> > > I shall fire up the machine and have a couple of games in celebration. Wow... in those days, an $895 computer sold for �299 in the UK. I don't know if that article is very accurate though. It says the C64 was discontinued in 1989; I thought it was produced until well into the 1990s. I also read somewhere that Commodore produced more 64s than Apple has ever made Macintoshes - that surely can't be true now, even if it was a few years ago. Daniele

On 2012-01-02 13:53:41 +0000, real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) said: > I also read somewhere that Commodore produced more 64s than Apple has > ever made Macintoshes - that surely can't be true now, even if it was a > few years ago. Pretty sure it's true for each -single- model of the Mac. The C64 is said to be the greatest selling single model of computer of all time, although to be honest I'm not even totoally sure about that - surely things like the original, the breadbox and then the C64c fragment that? Whether it is or it isn't - still a damned fine achievement. Cheers, Ian -- Check out Proto the album: <http://studioicm.com/proto/>

Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> wrote: > On 2012-01-02 13:53:41 +0000, > real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) said: > > > I also read somewhere that Commodore produced more 64s than Apple has > > ever made Macintoshes - that surely can't be true now, even if it was a > > few years ago. > > Pretty sure it's true for each -single- model of the Mac. The C64 is > said to be the greatest selling single model of computer of all time, > although to be honest I'm not even totoally sure about that - surely > things like the original, the breadbox and then the C64c fragment that? The original *was* the breadbox. Anyway, I think that since the various C64 models shared the same fundamental specifications and architecture that they count as a single model. Daniele

With all due respect and as a fan of old micros this isn't the 30th anniversary of the C64. When something is dead or not made anymore it doesn't have an anniversary! Just because some idiots bought the name and put out a shitty Linux box doesn't make it a C64! There are computers a lot older than the C64 that are still being made, their descendants anyway.

On 2012-01-02 14:30:16 +0000, real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) said: > Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> wrote: > >> Pretty sure it's true for each -single- model of the Mac. The C64 is >> said to be the greatest selling single model of computer of all time, >> although to be honest I'm not even totoally sure about that - surely >> things like the original, the breadbox and then the C64c fragment that? > > The original *was* the breadbox. Sorry - I count the brown one as the breadbox, not the original. Might nobe very accurate of me to do so, but that's how I think. I have a brown breadbox one, and anything later than that is modern rubbish…* > Anyway, I think that since the various C64 models shared the same > fundamental specifications and architecture that they count as a single > model. Yep. Cheers, Ian * well, not really. I just mean that in my poor befuddled mind a C64c is still too new to be counted as a retro machine, and you have any SID other than the 6581 you're definitely in the modern world. And y es, I know I'm wrong. -- Check out Proto the album: <http://studioicm.com/proto/>

Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote: > With all due respect and as a fan of old micros this isn't the 30th > anniversary of the C64. When something is dead or not made anymore it > doesn't have an anniversary! Of course it does. Every event that occurred in 1982 has its 30th anniversary this year, by definition. Daniele

"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in message news:cbb8ad13d82a287eee49602f805baba0@dizum.com... > With all due respect and as a fan of old micros this isn't the 30th > anniversary of the C64. When something is dead or not made anymore it > doesn't have an anniversary! Just because some idiots bought the name and > put out a shitty Linux box doesn't make it a C64! There are computers a > lot > older than the C64 that are still being made, their descendants anyway. That's just silly, ofcourse it's the 30th anniversary. Besides, a C64 emulator running on a Linux box is more of a C64 than what a modern Mac has in common with the original Macintosh.

Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201201.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> wrote: > > > With all due respect and as a fan of old micros this isn't the 30th > > > anniversary of the C64. When something is dead or not made anymore it > > > doesn't have an anniversary! > > > > Of course it does. > > > > Every event that occurred in 1982 has its 30th anniversary this year, by > > definition. > > No, that is not the definition of anniversary! Anniversary is about things > that are still going! People who get divorced don't celebrate anniversaries > because the marriage doesn't exist! If divorced people don't celebrate their anniversary, it's because they understandably don't feel like celebrating the anniversary of their failed marriage. It's not because it's not the anniversary. An anniversary is simply the date on which an event occurred in some previous year. Daniele

In article <1kdbg4f.1va8rrg8jl81iN%real-not-anti-spam-address@apple- juice.co.uk>, real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk says... > Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201201.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> > wrote: > > > > > With all due respect and as a fan of old micros this isn't the 30th > > > > anniversary of the C64. When something is dead or not made anymore it > > > > doesn't have an anniversary! > > > > > > Of course it does. > > > > > > Every event that occurred in 1982 has its 30th anniversary this year, by > > > definition. > > > > No, that is not the definition of anniversary! Anniversary is about things > > that are still going! People who get divorced don't celebrate anniversaries > > because the marriage doesn't exist! > > If divorced people don't celebrate their anniversary, it's because they > understandably don't feel like celebrating the anniversary of their > failed marriage. > > It's not because it's not the anniversary. An anniversary is simply the > date on which an event occurred in some previous year. > > Daniele > How about we just call it a milestone?