Commodore 64 - The Revival Of A Legend
It was in the year 1982 that the Commodore 64 better known as C64 hit the computing scene. The Atari 400 as well as Atari 800 was challenged by the Commodore 64 that had not set out on big footing at the time. TVs were hooked and the graphics and sound that were simply superior as compared to PCs from IBM as well as other clones did well. Statistics indicate that millions of units were sold at that time from the year 1983 to the year 1986, thus witnessing the market for home computers dominated a good deal.
It outsold a number of clones in IBM PCs as well as computers from Atari and Apple. A replica of C64 was released by Commodore USA. A few modifications and also some major improvements are seen in the new Commodore 64 which looks very similar to its older version. It is because of these latest modifications that it is now a computer which is very affordable as it is multi functional. When the C64 was introduced first, it had a system memory of 64 KB and as of today it has been upgraded to a DDR3 memory of 2 GB which can be expanded to 4 GB.
The two graphics chipsets of Nvidia Ion as well as the Intel dual-core 525 Atom CPU are the latest additions in the new C64. The Blu ray disc player that is optional and USB ports amounting to five are some of the best modern components included in the C64's classic design. For the retro chassis the starting price is just about 250 dollars. The rest of the components and the motherboard have to be installed by the buyer.
If you are looking for models that are fully assembled then you can get them at a 595 dollar price range as compared to the original price of C64 amounting to $895. It was in September 2010 that the USA trademark for the Commodore was purchased by Barry Altman who had no plans of selling the C64 replicas. However, it was through the emails received by the company that it was understood that C64 had a fan following during when it was originally introduced and the demand continues to exist even in the present times. The manufacturing molds and the drawings of the original design were not available to create the C64 of today.
With Motorola's help the new mold was re-created in the new factory which appeared to be very similar to the original C64. This latest introduction has the C64 emulator; it allows playing of videos online and also has the ability of surfing the web. Ubuntu Linux is the modern operating system of the new C64 system. The Epson dot matrix printers as well as C.Itoh printers are available rebranded besides the color plotters and the daisy wheel printers. There is no doubt about the awakening of the sleeping giant, or was the Commodore ever sleeping really? But now the cult around this technology ensures perennial wakefulness with growing support from people never being compromised, and public interest evergrowing.