commodore 64 for multimedia

The Commodore 64 is an 8 bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982. Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$ 595[1][2]. Preceded by the commodore 64 and Commodore MAX Machine, the C64 features 64 kilobytes (65 536 bytes) of memory with sound and graphics performance that were superior to IBM-compatible computers of that time. It is commonly known as the C64 or C=64 (after the graphic logo on the case) and occasionally as the CBM 64 (for Commodore Business Machines), or VIC-64[3] It has also been affectionately nicknamed the “breadbox” and “bullnose” due to the shape and color of the first version of its casing[citation needed].

During the C64’s lifetime, sales totaled 30 million units, making it the best-selling single personal computer model of all time[4] For a substantial period of time (1983–1986), the C64 dominated the market with between 30% and 40% share and 2 million units sold per year[5], outselling the IBM PC clones, Apple Inc. computers, and Atari computers. Sam Tramiel, a former Atari president said in a 1989 interview “When I was at Commodore we were building 400,000 C64s a month for a couple of years.”[6]