You remarked on the box marketing emphasizing "serious" business and practical use cases instead of video games. Although the C64 debuted in 1982, by the next year Commodore's steep price cuts (targeted at Texas Instruments' TI 99/4A) were a major factor in causing the industry-wide Video Game Crash of 1983. So I wonder exactly when this individual computer was manufactured. If in 1983-4, Commodore was likely trying to avoid the fallout from the crash it helped cause and didn't want its product to be dismissed as a "mere" video game system.
1983-4 views that video games were passé, a fad that had peaked & faded like pinball, CB radio, etc., so spooked the industry that when Nintendo launched the NES in America, it (like Commodore) also went out of its way to downplay its product's real purpose being video games. That's why the NES didn't look like a console -- no always-visible cartridge slot, no game sticking out; instead you slide the game in like those new VHS tapes. And the box and ads emphasized the R.O.B. to make NES seem like a new kind of toy.
My C64 was the best present I have ever received. It felt like unboxing the future...
You remarked on the box marketing emphasizing "serious" business and practical use cases instead of video games. Although the C64 debuted in 1982, by the next year Commodore's steep price cuts (targeted at Texas Instruments' TI 99/4A) were a major factor in causing the industry-wide Video Game Crash of 1983. So I wonder exactly when this individual computer was manufactured. If in 1983-4, Commodore was likely trying to avoid the fallout from the crash it helped cause and didn't want its product to be dismissed as a "mere" video game system.
1983-4 views that video games were passé, a fad that had peaked & faded like pinball, CB radio, etc., so spooked the industry that when Nintendo launched the NES in America, it (like Commodore) also went out of its way to downplay its product's real purpose being video games. That's why the NES didn't look like a console -- no always-visible cartridge slot, no game sticking out; instead you slide the game in like those new VHS tapes. And the box and ads emphasized the R.O.B. to make NES seem like a new kind of toy.
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Having all those photocopies of manuals is super useful!
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Reminds me of Solid Gold.
I have used many, many computers from PCs to Macs and even Adams, but I have only used a c64 once in my life. I know almost nothing about them!
So many manuals, maybe upload them to archive.org
That's a good idea! Whenever we have a slow day at the office we'll be sure to do that