Commodore 64

Ha! I had one of these...

6510, 0.985 MHz (PAL) and 1.02 MHz (NTSC). 20 Kbytes. 64 Kbytes. SID 6581, 3 channels of lovely sound. The chip is very impressive for it's time. [more] VIC-II, 16 colours, text resolution at 40 x 25. Graphics resolution at 320 x 200. [more] Tape interface or a 5 1/4" floppy drive that can store 170k/side. [more] By early 1982, Commodore had five new products in development, one of them being the infamous Commodore 64. Believing he had a winner, Tramiel took a gamble. He sidelined the other products and built up massive inventories of the C64. Then, he flew in the face of the computer industry by enlisting the same mass merchandisers (K-Mart,Toys "R" Us, Target, and others) that sold the Vic-20 to market the C64. By doing so, he proved that computer buyers didn't need to rely on the hand-holding of an elite class of computer-literate salespeople and their specialty store prices.