Post #4018225

2026-07-22 18:22 UTC

So, I just unboxed the first C64 I've ever owned. It was too expensive for 16-year-old me in 1982, but the C64U costs the same in real terms and I'm not 16 any more. It also comes with 128Mb of RAM, a 50MHz CPU (emulated in hardware by an FPGA), 64Gb of various C64 software and demos on a "cassette" (actually a USB drive), and has a bunch of 21st century bells and whistles like wifi and an SD card drive emulator.

Replies (7)

@target@infosec.exchange 2026-07-22 20:05

@cstross@wandering.shop They really nailed the keyboard.

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@masek@infosec.exchange 2026-07-22 20:23

@cstross@wandering.shop I still have my original C64 for which I took out a loan under oppressive terms from my parents 😏. Serial# is 600

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@davidrisney@infosec.exchange 2026-07-22 20:48

@cstross@wandering.shop My families first computer was the "portable" C64 SX. My dad gave the neighbors an extra wheelbarrow he had and they had just upgraded their computer and offered him their old C64 SX. I loved that machine.

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@mwl@io.mwl.io 2026-07-22 18:22

@cstross@wandering.shop very cool, enjoy!

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@rollbear@fosstodon.org 2026-07-22 18:24

@cstross@wandering.shop Do you still need a crappy CRT TV? I'm guessing not, but it'd kind of be cool

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@steinarb@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 18:38

50MHz is a lot more than the (roughly) 1MHz that C64 came with. Have to google the C64U... (FWIW my Beeb model B had 2 MHz on (basically) the same CPU).

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@chetman@hachyderm.io 2026-07-22 18:40

@cstross@wandering.shop That sounds AWESOME

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