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1 C. Pronk 1 The Commodore 64 © Kees Pronk http://vitrinemuseum.ewi.tudelft.nl sources: various web locations

2 C. Pronk 2 C-64 Workstation A complete Commodore 64 workstation including display, datasette, joystick and floppy drive

3 C. Pronk 3 Some History The Commodore 64 computer was sold from 1983.. 1987. Some 30 Million copies have been sold making it the best selling computer ever.

4 C. Pronk 4 The processor and memory MOS 6510 processor chip (8-bit) Clock speed: 0.985 MHz (PAL video) Memory: 64 kbytes of which 38 kbytes was used for the BASIC 2.0 interpreter Graphics chip: VIC II, 16 color, 8 hardware sprites  text mode: 40*25 characters  graphics mode: 320*200 pixels Sound chip: MOS technology 6581 (3 channels)

5 C. Pronk 5 C64 Mother board

6 C. Pronk 6 C-64 Peripherals - 1 Datasette Analog recording of digital signals by Frequency Shift Keying

7 C. Pronk 7 C-64 Peripherals - 2 Commodore 1541 5 ¼ inch floppy drive

8 C. Pronk 8 Data cartridges (pre loaded programs) Program debugger The Final Cartridge III

9 C. Pronk 9 C64 with ROM-cassette loaded

10 C. Pronk 10 C64 Start screen

11 C. Pronk 11 Emulators Several emulators for running a C64 on other Operating Systems are available:  VICE  Frodo The free portable C64 emulator  CCS64

12 C. Pronk 12 This museum The 'vitrinemuseum' shows early computer hardware as used for various labs at Delft University of Technology. Have a look at http://vitrinemuseum.ewi.tudelft.nl http://vitrinemuseum.ewi.tudelft.nl


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