Anyone who keeps a regular eye on gadget blogs will know the idol-worthy name of Ben Heck. He’s the master modder who’s managed to make a portable version of almost every popular games machine in ...

As a child of the 80s, I didn’t have an Atari, an NES, or even a Sega Master System. My first console was actually our family’s first computer: the Commodore 64. It was a passable gaming system, but ...

Editor’s Note 4/10/12: Jack Tramiel died on April 8 and will always be remembered as a computing industry pioneer and founder of Commodore. The Commodore 64 was one of the most popular PCs of all time ...

The keyboard of the iconic Commodore 64. Thirty years ago, Commodore Business Machines released the Commodore 64, an 8-bit home personal computer that became an iconic cultural force. With its low ...

In the early 1980s—when the average cost of a personal computer was $2700, and the average American earned just over $14,500 per year—Jack Tramiel decided to do for computers what Henry Ford had done ...

This year marks the anniversary of the most popular selling home computer ever, the Commodore 64, which made its debut in 1982. Note that I am saying “home computer” and not personal computer (PC) ...

These days, using a computer often seems like it’s less about actual computing and more about touching and dragging your way across the slick, safe UI of a mysteriously sealed, glowing rectangle. So ...

I probably don't deserve to write silicon.com's eulogy to the Commodore 64 because I have a shameful secret. A secret, nearly 20 years later, I only now dare tell. I'd had my C64 - a Spectrum ...

August 1982 will be remembered as the month the Commodore 64, the legendary spearhead of the home computer revolution, was launched. It is estimated that close to 20 million Commodore 64s were sold, a ...

Back in the halcyon days of the 80’s, my siblings and I were lucky enough to receive a VIC-20 computer for Christmas. As much fun as I had whiling away the hours on such classics as Missile Command ...