Far from the birth of the dispute by Windows vs Mac vs alias Bill Gates and Steve Jobs when computers still occupied entire apartment and did not know nor s'immaginavano Internet and Linux was the Commode 64, some of us remember from personal experience or indirect, but the younger ones think not. However today the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the C64.
Who has used in the 80s, remember hours and hours of games in rudimentary graphics, endless listings in BASIC without a decent debugger and 5-inch floppy disks and 1 / 4. For those who remember, even twenty-five years ago there was a movement in Apple, the real rival of the Commodore 64, the famous Apple II. It must be said that the C64 was much cheaper dell 'Apple.
L 'main host of the celebration was Jack Tramiel (founder of Commodore), in one of his rare public appearance, which reminded the audience that the C64 has sold a total figure of between 20 and 30 million pieces, a number impressive in its day. Among others invited legendary Steve Wozniak co-founder of Apple, Acorn and Al invented the game Pong. Also a video of 'event, with actors who speak in person.