This week at CES 2025, numerous major hardware announcements are being unveiled — but in the long history of CES, these ...

The SID chip inside the Commodore 64 and 128 is arguably still the gold standard for chip tunes, and the C64 itself still a decent computer for MIDI sequencing. [Frank Buss] realized most of the ...

Although the PET is most likely the more well-known of Commodore’s early computer systems, the KIM-1 (Keyboard Input Monitor) single board computer was launched a year prior, in 1976. It ...

“Planned obsolescence” is one of the most controversial topics in the tech industry. Many believe that companies make their products less and less durable to force you to replace them more often.

The personal computer has been around in some form for another since the release of John Blankenbaker's Kenbak-1 in 1971. However, it wasn't until 1975 that the PC hit the consumer market with the ...

Four decades ago at CES 1985, the Commodore 128 debuted. It sold just a few million units compared to 17 million for the Commodore 64 — the era of 8 ...

Before eventually becoming available for other systems, Quantum Computer Services began offering its Quantum Link software to owners of the Commodore 64 and 128 PCs in November 1985. Q-Link was ...

For more details on the hardware of the C128 and its development, we recommend this video by 8-Bit-Guy (with Bill Herd as a guest), as well as a lecture on his last time at Commodore and the two ...

The Commodore 64 took CES 1982 by storm, promising a system that was considerably more powerful than anything offered by the competition while costing only $595, a price that reportedly bewildered ...