[Petri]’s first computer was the venerable Commodore VIC-20, predecessor to the Commodore 64. With only 5kB of RAM, a very simple graphics chip, and BASIC, it’s a bare-bones system that’s perfect for ...

History and [Bil Herd] teaches us that Commodore begged, borrowed, or stole the engineers responsible for the Speak & Spell to add voice synthesis to a few of the computers that came after the C64.

Commodore Business Machines (CBM) had been in business long before handheld electronic calculators had been invented, let alone "personal computers." Computing machines took up whole rooms in ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. Back in early 2018, Retro Games Ltd. announced a miniaturized ...

I don't really want to go into much detail of where I was or what I was doing when I bought my first personal computer but it was the early 1980s. I was young and impressionable. I wanted a computer ...

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Whether you're a lover of all things retro or are simply someone who lived through the 1980s and wants to rekindle a little techy nostalgia, seeing the Commodore VIC-20 should send shivers down your ...