Commodore History Part 6 - The PC Compatibles

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  @UselessDuckCompany · 7 years ago

  It's 1am and I need to go to sleep. What have you done!

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• DI

  @Direrain72 · 7 years ago

  &gt;get home from work<br>&gt;See a new Commodore History video<br><br>Ah, Life is good.

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• ST

  @Striker-ql1mg · 7 years ago

  The PC-1 was build in 1987, the 1984 date stamp is only for the radioshield guidelines of 1984 in Germany.

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• LG

  @LGR · 7 years ago

  Enjoyed this one immensely! Had no idea these came with Plantronics compatibility.<br>Got a machine a few months ago with a Colorplus-compatible card inside and it&apos;s a fun thing to mess with indeed. Massive props for updating X3 to support it!

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• JO

  @jochenblacha7241 · 7 years ago (edited)

  Dear 8-Bit Governator, Sir... no idea if anyone already pointed it out or told you... that &quot;1046/1984&quot; reference in the plastic (@<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e63XWCW2ADY&amp;t=103">1:43</a>) is just a compliance reference to some German interference regulation law, comparable to a FCC compliance declaration. That&apos;s no indication of the year the device/unit was built in.

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• RI

  @Rick-wn5oh · 7 years ago (edited)

  My first PC compatible was a Commodore Colt. I loved that machine. You could crank this one up to 10 megahertz. I installed the 20 MB hard drive. No one I knew you had one that big.

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• AD

  @adews7204 · 7 years ago

  Me:well time to go to bed<br>The 8-bit guy: uploads video<br>Me:well I’m not that tired

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• TH

  @theplateisbad1332 · 7 years ago

  Since the PC10 says Made in W-Germany on the back, it probably made sense to use a Siemens 8088, saving customs and shipping...

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• GO

  @GoredonTheDestroyer · 7 years ago

  Hey, I just wanna say that while I&apos;m not hearing impaired, I appreciate how you include closed captions on just about every video you upload. That&apos;s the kind of dedication and quality that YouTube really needs.

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• BO

  @BoyoOfficial · 5 years ago (edited)

  It’s pretty interesting how Siemens was making processors back then. I work on fire alarms and I’ve been to a power station with a gas turbine system and fire alarm that are at least 30 years old and still working. They really know what they’re doing!

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• OR

  @OrloxPhoenix · 7 years ago

  A 5 hours video??<br>&quot;8-bit Guy: The Movie - Extended Cut&quot;

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• VW

  @vwestlife · 7 years ago (edited)

  One reason why Commodore was unable to compete in the PC clone marketplace is that they never implemented the &quot;Just In Time&quot; production process. Instead they bought huge stocks of parts that would sit in the warehouse waiting to be assembled into computers. This was fine for the C64 or Amiga models that didn&apos;t change that often, but in the fast-paced PC world Commodore couldn&apos;t keep up with the latest technology. Perhaps that&apos;s why they gave so many different model numbers and names to the same basic XT clone design, to try to make it seem like they were constantly updating their PC models even when they still had the same hardware inside.

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