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Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo There are also these Osborne (left) and Commodore computers. The Osborne was pitched as one of the first portable computers while the Commodore 64, introduced in 1982, was a huge... [29 Sep 2009]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo This is the Amstrad 'Colour Personal Computer' that Sir Alan Sugar launched in 1984 to rival the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. Here's a driver giving the tech a spin. To see more click here. Photo... [02 Oct 2008]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo Continuing with the cheap theme, the Amstrad 'Colour Personal Computer' was launched by Sir Alan Sugar in 1984 as a rival to the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64. Here is the Commodore... [03 Sep 2008]
Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?
News Commodore 64 or Acorn Electron? Amstrad or Spectrum? silicon.com readers have posted a flurry of comments around a poll we ran recently asking the question, what was your first home computer? Not only... [30 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.04.08
Round-Up In comparison, the Spectrum's big rivals of the day, the BBC Micro and Commodore 64, could only muster 15 per cent and 14 per cent of the vote respectively. If Speccy fans knew then what they know now,... [25 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment That meant beating other classics such as the Apple II, BBC Micro, my own personal favourite the Amstrad CPC464, and others including the Commodore 64 and Dragon 32. Where was the... [22 Apr 2008]
ZX Spectrum crowned king of computer classics
News In comparison the Spectrum's big rivals of the day, the BBC Micro and Commodore 64, could only muster 15 per cent and 14 per cent of the vote respectively. In the battle of early 1990s gaming machines... [18 Apr 2008]
My first computer: The Dragon 32
News In fact I spent most of my time round at my mates' houses playing on their Spectrums and Commodore 64s. We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. Thus far we've... [10 Feb 2005]
My first computer: The Commodore 64
News Did we know that Commodore was founded in 1954 by Jack Tramiel, a Polish Jew who'd survived six years at Auschwitz and other concentration camps? We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of... [03 Feb 2005]
Commodore rises from the ashes
News Commodore - one of staples of the early 80s and much beloved of those around at the start of the PC revolution - may be about to get a second lease of life. The Commodore brand name has been bought by a... [05 Jan 2005]
What was your first computer?
News THE VIC-20 AND THE COMMODORE 64 One of our most popular video pieces ever was The Big Question: What was your first computer? first aired in April 2002. At the time it brought in a barrage of reader... [14 Jan 2003]
Best of Reader Comments: Your first computer
News I remember finding it on top of my mother's wardrobe about a week before Christmas and thinking "Bugger, I really wanted a Commodore 64. My first computer was a Commodore Plus 4. Do you... [11 Apr 2002]
Video games are 40 years old
News Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64 http://www.silicon.com/a50999 It is 40 years since the birth of what is widely credited as the first video game, since students at MIT created... [05 Mar 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
Comment For part two of this column - our look at the Commodore 64 - click here: http://www.silicon.com/a50951 This week we hear from Tony Hallett and Jon Bernstein, silicon.com writers who were drawn to the... [04 Feb 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
News For part two of this column - our look at the Commodore 64 - click here: http://www.silicon.com/a50951 This week we hear from Tony Hallett and Jon Bernstein, silicon.com writers who were drawn to the... [01 Feb 2002]
