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This is the first of two episodes of Castellini on Computers we will be posting in the next few days. All talkingDigital podcasts are first posted on the respective show’s blog a few days before we post them here in the master feed. This episode was from 10-07-10, but you can hear the episode we recorded today (10-20-10) over at HelpMeRick.com. Or you can wait a few days and we will post that episode here.

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The Commodore has returned. A very solid argument could be made that the Commodore 64 was the first real home computer. Sure, there were other home computers, but the Commodore 64 was the standard.

Although Commodore eventually disappeared as a casualty of the Mac vs. Windows battle, Commodore has always had a cult following and it is remember by millions as the first computer they ever used.
photo credit: farnea

The tech blogs are abuzz today over the resurrection of the Commodore name. Although today’s Commodore is not the same Commodore that existed in the 80s, the device they have announced pays homage to the Commodore 64.

There is no model name for the new Commodore system – it is simply the Commodore. The logo is essentially the same and the design of the device itself pays homage to the 64.

The Commodore 64 was a computer in a keyboard. Gradually computers expanded in size as peripherals and power required bigger systems. Gradually the trend has reversed itself. Today we live in the world of the iPad, iPhone and netbooks.  Power and usefulness is no longer perceived as being relative to physical size.

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