Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for October 21, 2015

Not much of anything will run on a Commodore 64.

what do you expect from lowest bidder?

In it’s day the “64” was it…………..that day was about 35 years ago !

Shucks, I had a VIC20, which was the 64’s predecessor. And in response to the above comment, both the 64 and Apple used a MOS 6502 processor, but it was not “Apple’s processor” – though Apple even then was busily claiming everything was theirs and suing everybody else for infringement… somethings never change.

gotta love some people. they think that the commodore 64 is the best computer ever, atari has the best games, houses should cost 5000, gas should be a 5 cents a gallon, and min. wage should be $2 per hour. however, life moved on, technology advanced, and they didn’t.

Commodore 64s? They finally upgraded from TRS-80s?

The Commodore 64. Isn’t that the one that replaced cave drawing?

The Best home computer was the coco’s I had c64’s vic20’s, atari’s and coco’s. The coco was the best. Mine had a 512 ram drive, 5 megabyte hard drive, 6 floppie drives and a 1200 bd autoanswer modem (fast for the time) real keyboard and mouse, and it used a real monitor. The others were not as expandable. The coco3 would also do math faster than the tandy 1000 ibm clone at the time. OS9 was a great operating system at the time. I ran a bulletin board for about 5 years on the last one. (the things we had before the internet)

I have you all beat. I worked with the SAGE system as an intercept director in the 60’s.Check this out.

SAGE consisted of 20 or so Direction Centers, each of which was a windowless, one-acre-large concrete cube (see below). Inside each DC were two CPUs, each one measuring 7,500 sq ft and consisting of 60,000 vacuum tubes, 175,000 diodes, 13,000 newfangled transistors, and 256KB of magnetic core RAM, consuming a total of 3MW of power and weighing in at 250 tons. Each CPU — only one operated at a time; the other was kept as a hot spare to minimize downtime — was capable of executing 75,000 instructions per second, which was enough to spit out tons of radar data to 150 CRT consoles.

Two thumbs up on the CoCo, I ran “A-DOS” on mine. I loved the ability to customize the op-sys. I still have a couple of UV-Proms used to burn custom dos roms.

Ah, the good old days when programmers respected resources!

Loved the 6502 microprocessor. Even though it was “only” 8 bits, and could address only 64K, we made it tap dance and sing. (And no, it wasn’t an Apple product! [As somebody else already mentioned.])

Loved OS9, too. Thanks for the walk down memory lane….

Sometimes you don’t need much processing power, but you do want something that’s had time to be proven very, very reliable.