vic-20 Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/vic-20/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sun, 01 Dec 2019 03:15:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png vic-20 Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/vic-20/ 32 32 146320098 The Home Computer Christmas Wars http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/01/the-home-computer-christmas-wars/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/01/the-home-computer-christmas-wars/#respond Sun, 01 Dec 2019 03:09:16 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9318 Imagine you forked over US$30 (US$80 in 2018) or even more in Australia with its ‘luxury’ import tax for an ET cartridge to give little Johnnie for Christmas and he hated it! You would’ve been [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/01/the-home-computer-christmas-wars/feed/ 0 9318 The Crystal Ball: CRT ‘Innovation’ Flops http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/23/the-crystal-ball-crt-innovation-flops/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/23/the-crystal-ball-crt-innovation-flops/#respond Sat, 22 Sep 2018 14:00:36 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1512 Telephone Television The “Space Phone” built into some Zenith System 3 TVs from the 1970s to the 1990s unfortunately didn’t let you call space, but it did let grandma call her grandkids without having to [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/23/the-crystal-ball-crt-innovation-flops/feed/ 0 1512 VIC-20 Phone Home: The Commodore VICModem http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/28/vic-20-phone-home-the-commodore-vicmodem/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/28/vic-20-phone-home-the-commodore-vicmodem/#respond Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:09:43 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=874 Released in 1980, the VIC-20 was the world’s first low-cost computer, at a list price of under US$300. Compared to other computers of the time, the VIC-20 had a tiny memory (5 kilobytes) and an [more...]

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