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The Return of the Commodore?
PseudoSapien writes "A Dutch consumer media company is hoping it can tap the power of the VIC 20, the PET and the Commodore 64 to launch a new wave of products, including a home media center device and a portable GPS (Global Positioning System) unit and media player. They're talking about Resurrecting Commodore." From the article: "Commodore is far from the first company to try to revive a once-popular tech brand. The Amiga, Commodore's onetime PC brand, has had its own decades-long history as fans tried to preserve both the computer's operating system and brand despite the lack of strong corporate backing."
8 bit is back!
The good news: It will run Open Office. The bad news: The Open Office suite will come on 382 floppy disks.
Maybe they'll buy my 400 shares of CBM. ;-)
Typing, typing, typing, typing, save to tape.
Typing, typing, typing, typing, save to tape.
Typing, typing, typing, typing, save to tape.
Typing, typing, typing, typing, save to tape.
Unplug computer from TV and watch news.
Plug in computer to TV and continue!
What's a Commodore?
You fail as a first officer.
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
When you're older son we'll tell you. It's what peopled used before they discovered hard drives and monitors, not to mention store bought software. Remember working off a TV? Good times, good times.
You kids. Remember loading the terminal driver for the 33ASR on front panel register switches, then bootstrapping from paper tape? Remember playing Star Trek games that printed out the entire board after every turn?
Remember where i put my teeth?
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Wouldn't a non-portable GPS be kinda pointless? I'm seeing a big rock with "You are here" carved on it.