14 DAY TRIAL // Today is the 30th anniversary of a certain PC system that easily qualified as a game changer back in its time: the Commodore 64.
We wouldn't normally be fussing over this, but the Commodore 64 is enough of a classic that people established Commodore USA just so they could revive it.
The company isn't the same as Commodore Systems. That firm went bankrupt in 1994, 22 years after releasing the Commodore itself in August, 1982.
Still, Commodore USA did license the trademark, so it was allowed to make a clone of that PC, only with updated hardware.
Speaking of which, the original has 64 KB of RAM, 16 color support, a TV output and even an 8-bit MOS Technology 6510 processor (1.023 MHz) on the NTSC version. It is still considered the best-selling PC of all times.
The current Commodore 64 are mini-ITX nettops shaped like oversized keyboards and loaded with Commodore 64 emulation software.