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The Real Story of Hacking Together the Commodore C128

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-in-the-day dept.

szczys writes "Bil Herd was the designer and hardware lead for the Commodore C128. He reminisces about the herculean effort his team took on in order to bring the hardware to market in just five months. At the time the company had the resources to roll their own silicon (that's right, custom chips!) but this also meant that for three of those five months they didn't actually have the integrated circuits the computer was based on."

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  1. Re:Mistake by GrahamCox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, but you weren't a true C64 department-store hacker until you entered the couple of POKEs that disabled RUN/STOP and RESTORE keys before entering that loop.

  2. Re:U.S. Navy? by bmajik · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is such a Slashdot story :)

    "A girl invited me to her house on several occasions. Each time, I spent more and more time being impressed with the Commodore 64"

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  3. About time by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Excellent, my wife's been on me to upgrade my C64

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