{"id":1051,"date":"2014-05-19T12:38:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T17:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2014-05-27T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T18:56:08","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-commodore-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1051\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-commodore-64","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Commodore 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/commodore_64_palette_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/commodore_64_palette_small.jpg\" alt=\"Commodore 64 Advertisement \" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>It&#8217;s the Commodore 64.  &#8216;Nuff said.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve covered the Commodore 64 quite a bit over the years, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/516\/inside-the-commodore-64\" target=\"_blank\">taking one apart for PC World<\/a> back in 2008 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/885\/my-week-with-the-commodore-64-30th-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\">spending a week working with one<\/a> in honor of its 30th anniversary in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever posted a plain &#8216;ole ad for the Commodore 64 itself.  Until now, that is.  Here&#8217;s a colorful one that graced the back of many computer magazine issues back in 1983.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Personal Computing &#8211; November 1983, back cover]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> When did you first get a Commodore 64?  Tell us the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Commodore 64. &#8216;Nuff said. I&#8217;ve covered the Commodore 64 quite a bit over the years, including taking one apart for PC World back in 2008 and spending a week working with one in honor of its 30th anniversary in 2012. But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever posted a plain &#8216;ole ad for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[139,150,160,161,138,60],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-139","tag-advertisement","tag-commodore","tag-commodore-64","tag-personal-computing","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}