Commodore C64 Price Comparison
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An old commercial comparing the C64 with the prices of computers from IBM, Apple and Atari.
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Eric
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POWER!
Nerd Joke, do you get it?
Holly
wish I could find an old one to **** with
Curtis
No, they are not yet worth more than they were new. LOL However, they are collectible and a cool piece of early computing history. Show me any 8 bit machine of its time that could do the graphic and sound capabilities of the C64? Uhmm, NONE. At the time for the cost it was unmatched. Apple had more expansion capability but that is about it. I liked all computers but for the money the C64 was pretty cool.
Pauline
And Microsoft comes to blow them all away.
Travis
Many people still use Commodores for music today, as fully integrated studio composition and synth machines.
I do too. Paste this title into the Youtube bar: COMMODORE 64 “COOTY”
Also Google in CONCEPT-SINGLE NET
Kurt
as collector’s items those are actually worth much more than that
Fernando
i could not hold one search on that one
Edwin
That’s about 1300$ in 2008 dollars.
Loretta
That’s equivalent to about $2000 in todays money.
Don’t you love your parents a little bit more now?
Tyrone
But yes..they’re so old that people collect them and because of age and rarity their prices are going up…I collected some…
Kelly
what a **** piece of equipment gd
Nellie
64k??? (0064.0 of a Meg) they streched that memory to the limet… with good results…. Theres more memory in my microwave now…
Tara
lol and today none of these are worth more than $0000.25
Brittany
U can´t even use a basic programm from a VIC20 on a C64, u have to do changes.
The price sure don´t include a floppy disk or casette recorder.
They compare the C64 with the Atari 800 (not 800 XL), so this must be a very early C64 comercial.
Delores
$595!!!! Thats outrageous….Suprised my dad got me one when i was a kid…
Frederick
the commodore 64 is 100% with apple and msx printers and isso easy to connect. Also, the Commodore (in general) can be connected to a Monitor (RGB or DIN 5 port) or a TV (RCA R/F connection). So, the Commodore 64 was the best computer that you can buy in 80s
Pearl
That’s ture.
Willie
The commodore 64 is compatible with Apple’s mouse and joysticks. It had a lot of sotwares and games. Using the Microsoft Basic Standar, is 95% Compatible with others basic programs made with another plataform (excepting Apple, it use another Basic).
Second, the price include: disk 1541 (disk 5 1/4), Cassete player and recorder and a Basic user’s manual (in other countries includes 5 Basic manuals).
Bernice
And once you added everything the system would cost probably just as much as the other computers.
Allen
This price comparison seems to be true. Better PCs costed much much more.
Robert
Yezzzz! What a revolutiuon! says tomb from Salzburg, Austria
Eugene
Hey! How about a handheld C64 on a Nintendo DS?
Sheila
I’d thought I’d bring this up…
Actually the prices of the IBM, Apple, and the Atari home computers were actually quite less than that(minus the software, storage device, keybaord, mouse, and screen. Those prices would come into an effect if you were to get the “fully loaded” top of the line models of those systems. And the Commodore 64 that they show is the basic model, and at that price would have no software, storage devices, keyboard, mouse, and screen.
Troy
didn’t realize the 64 was that much when it first came out. definitely king of the 8-bits. spectrum, atari, amstrad, and apple all lost.
Agnes
Windows XP 64bit on a Commondor 64
that would be awsome!!