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The Commodore 64

© Kees Pronk

http://vitrinemuseum.ewi.tudelft.nlsources: various web locations

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C-64 Workstation

A complete Commodore 64 workstation including display, datasette, joystick and floppy drive

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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.

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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)

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C64 Mother board

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C-64 Peripherals - 1

Datasette

Analog recording of digital signals

by Frequency Shift Keying

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C-64 Peripherals - 2

Commodore 1541

5 ¼ inch

floppy drive

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Data cartridges (pre loaded programs)

Program debuggerThe Final Cartridge III

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C64 with ROM-cassette loaded

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C64 Start screen

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Emulators

• Several emulators for running a C64 on other Operating Systems are available:

VICE

Frodo The free portable C64 emulator

CCS64

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This museum

• The 'vitrinemuseum' shows early computer hardware as used for various labs at Delft University of Technology.

• Have a look athttp://vitrinemuseum.ewi.tudelft.nl