ITs History!1982 Commodore introduced the computer for the masses not the classes... <br>
“It writes, rates, creates, even telecommunicates. Costs less does more — the <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Commodore64?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Commodore64</a>” <br>
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This outstanding <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/homecomputer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homecomputer</a> came with <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/8bit?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#8bit</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/MOS6510?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MOS6510</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/CPU?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CPU</a>, 64KB RAM and <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/BASIC?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BASIC</a>. Initially the <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/C64?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C64</a> was sold for a little under 600 bucks, but competition was brutal in the <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/8bit?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#8bit</a>-war. <a href="https://youtu.be/E9nDsIvUto4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/E9nDsIvUto4</a><br>
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With prices dropping <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Commodore?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Commodore</a> sold two million units annually and had a market share up to 40% in the US until 1986. <br>
At one point, the company was selling as many C64s as the rest of the industry combined. <br>
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Even when <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/IBM?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PC?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PC</a> 5150 compatible <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/16bit?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#16bit</a> systems changed that in 1988, the <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/C?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C</a>=64 became highest-selling computer model of all time.<br>
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