14 DAY TRIAL // For those who have experienced the beginning of the computer age, you've probably heard of Commodore C64 or Sinclair ZX Spectrum. These "gaming platforms" have been very well seen and desired by "the kids of those times". As we are now battling for multiple core and $5000 plus systems, it all started with just a 3.5MHz processor, 16kB ROM and 16 or 48kB RAM.
If you look back at how things were 25 years ago, and how much we've evolved, it's an amazing leap in technological progress that we have made. It's just what I was talking about earlier; everything is relative to the point your looking from. Now we see the computer configurations as being normal, and something like the Sinclair ZX Spectrum as being a piece of technological junk, but years ago a user might have looked at one of these babies in the window of a shop and hoped that one day they might use such a thing in their living room.
When the American Commodore 64 came to take the crown of the British Sinclair ZX Spectrum, it was the battle of the giants, much like Intel and AMD today, with the difference that they were a little bit more "on the same level" than what is going on these days. But nevertheless, it might have been the beginning of the corporation wars we are now experiencing. Although their life span was somewhat short, these were the highest technological advancements available for the general public at that time and not a lot of people got a chance of buying such a piece of hardware, after all, the 48kB model being priced around $350;but money had another value back then.