November 27, 2004

Commodore 64 TV Game for Sale

Commodore=64-(emulator)-in-a-joysticks for sale at QVC.

I'm so freakin' tempted. The first computer I purchased, back in 1983, was a C=64, for two weeks' of my summer salary after my first year at Michigan Tech (not to mention the 12" monochrome (amber) CGA monitor and tape drive). The full system (which was, when I owned it the size of, like, three pro keyboards stacked on top of each other, without peripherals) has been replicated in the versions that QVC is selling as just a joystick, with direct TV connections, and 30 C=64 games.

Here's a shot of it to give you some scope, cribbed from FZ Wiki's history of computers:

commodore_64.jpg

I think the illustration actually has a disk drive, which Commodore released several years after I blew $100 on the tape drive.

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