Benjamin Franklin said that nothing is certain in this world but death and taxes.
The all-too-quick international break is over, as is your fearless ranker's. I'm back from Down Under, where I got a quick glimpse into Australian football. No, not this kind. Or this kind. Though now that you mention it, it was highly amusing to run into this (we think) Aussie rules legend in Melbourne.
If you know this command -- Load "*", 8,1 -- like the back of your hand, you probably have fond memories of the Commodore 64, one of the first home computers commercially available en masse.
Ian Schafer gets a C64 on his eighth birthday in 1983, and is so excited he forgets all about his birthday cake.
The C64 Orchestra performs music originally composed for the classic Commodore 64 personal computer in the 1980s.
Like a first love or a first car, a first computer can hold a special place in people's hearts. For millions of kids who grew up in the 1980s, that first computer was the Commodore 64. Twenty-five years later, that first brush with computer addiction is as strong as ever.
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Daryl Bruner of Taneytown, Maryland, made this 1990 video with a friend to show lights sequenced by a Commodore 64 computer.
It may be hard to imagine life without that lightning-fast PC or Mac on your desktop with its 3D graphics and 200 GB hard drive, but the Commodore 64 used to be a top-of-the-line computer.
Mark Dochtermann, 34, director of technology, Electronic Arts: "When I saw my first computer, it was love at first sight. As a kid I spent a lot of time on a Commodore 64, writing my own programs, figuring out games, hacking.
As you begin to consider what sort of yacht you'll require, it's necessary to know the various categories into which luxury pleasure craft fall. There is the "day yacht." There are "express cruiser...
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Koala Technologies, a California manufacturer that came up with a successful electronic blackboard called KoalaPad, recently introduced an IBM PCjr version of a computer keyboard that looks as if c...
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