Awhile back my wife brought home several boxes of Commodore 64 “stuff” that her brother was getting rid of. All of it sat in our basement for the longest time until I came home last week and there sat the whole family playing games on the Commodore 64. As it turns out there were 3 actual Commodore 64 computers amongst the stuff, each of them in various stages of disrepair. The nostalgic side of me remembers back to my own Commodore 64 & 128 computers, so I really wanted to keep at least one of them. I sat down this morning between the three of them and was able to put together a working unit with all of the keys on the keyboard. While I’m an A+ certified computer technician, this is the first time I’ve ever cracked open a Commodore. I may have to put this experience on my resume just for fun. I’m planning to teach my oldest boy how to do some basic programming on the Commodore 64, so he can learn just like dear old Dad did. You can see a picture of my newly refurbished Commodore 64 in all of its nostalgic geeky goodness below.
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Sweet! Let me know if you want help with the programming lessons!
I knew you’d be excited.
Looks fun. I think I used one of those at our small ACE school growing up. Dig dug, Caveman Olympics, and some flying game are what I remember most. Someone gave my dad an Atari with 60 some games and we played that while our friends were on Nintendo…. Those were the days.
Awesome! I got a couple of those from some people throwing them off and later a C128. I later was able to solicit just some software and hardware. I got some real gems… GIOS, a great GUI reminiscent of Mac Classic, a dot matrix printer, mouse, and some more fun stuff. I got a modem too but wasn’t able to get it online… although there are some web browsers made for it. BASIC on there is pretty easy to learn if you don’t have much else though.
Let us know how it goes. I may have some tips for you as well!
Jake,
My very first computer was a Commodore 128. When that died, I picked up a Commodore 64. After that it’s been PCs ever since. I’m looking forward to teaching my oldest son basic programming on the Commodore. That’s where I got my start, so I figure it could work for him too.
It’s like reliving part of my own childhood through my own kids. Jeremiah is quickly becoming a Dig Dug master.
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