{"id":18,"date":"2022-02-03T19:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=18"},"modified":"2025-11-26T08:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:29:14","slug":"commodore-128-in-the-attic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timsretrocorner.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Commodore 128 In The Attic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Commodore 128 Part 1: Introduction and Inspection\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ov1ugKInV9g?start=45&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Way back in 1980, I was first introduced to the Commodore PET. I was in college, and there was a lab with a dozen machines, sharing a pair of 4040 twin disk drives. This was revolutionary: before this, my whole computing experience required booking time on the campus&#8217; ICL 2960 mainframe (situated across town), and then returning the following day to collect the results. Naturally I lusted after a PET of my own, but as a student there was no way I could afford \u00a3700 for the computer, plus another \u00a3700 for the disk drive. (about \u00a36500 in today&#8217;s money, more even than a fully maxed out 16&#8243; M1Max MacBook Pro!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I waited. Before long the Vic 20 arrived on the scene. But I wasn&#8217;t impressed by the 22 column fuzzy colour screen. So I waited some more. Finally the Commodore 64 came out. This was much more like it, so I jumped on that bandwagon, and life was great. I bought the 1541 Disk Drive and (like everyone else) was thoroughly disappointed. 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