Garry Garrett's Homepage

Computers

Micro Computers

Commodore PET/VIC20/C64/C128 Computers

The VIC20, The C64 and the later C128 all share a common lineage. They used the 6510 CPU. The VIC20 was introduced in 1981 and the last of the generations were sold in 1992. I will also include on this page these computer's ancestors, the Commodore PET.

• Yahoo's page on the C64
• Creative Micro Designs sells new hardware and software for C64's and C128's.
• HeadGap is a BBS that supports C64 computers
• Andr�'s 8-bit pages is an excellent resource on the 6502 chip in general, and Commodore machines that ran it in specfic.
• Commodore 8-Bit Server has Commodore history, resources, and links.
• C=Ring a web ring of Commodore sites.
• The Butterfly Theory, a rather famous mathmatical theory about the accuracy of measurements, was discovered by meteorologists who's Commodore PET crashed half way through a weather simulation. They restarted the simulation in the middle, entering the numbers in from a print out. When they ran the simulation again, they got different results. They found that the minute rounding of digits when converting from binary to decimal (wind equivalent to the flapping of a butterfly's wings), made the difference between having a tornado and not having a tornado. What did you lean the last time your PC crashed?
• My page on Software has a section on Emulation programs that includes some Emulators for these computers.