Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it?
Found on BBC News on Thursday, 02 August 2012
The machine was hugely successful for its time, helping to encourage personal computing, popularise video games and pioneer homemade computer-created music.
The Commodore's ability to display 16 colours, smoothly scroll graphics and play back music through its superior SID (sound interface device) chip - even while loading programs off tape - helped win over fans, but it did not become the market leader until the late 1980s.
Yet thanks to a catastrophic management, Commodore managed to slowly turn its potential into nothing.