???? — 1988 · Tech
Apple 410 Color Plotter
retired
It drew the line, in water or oil, right to the very end.
“128 KB, three personalities, and one very good keyboard — it left with dignity.”
The Commodore 128D was Commodore's final 8-bit home computer, unveiled in January 1985 at CES in Las Vegas, three years after the Commodore 64, the bestselling computer of the 1980s. It nearly fully ran C64 software while adding 128 KB of RAM, an improved keyboard with numeric keypad and function keys, 80-column color video, and a Zilog Z80 CPU that could boot CP/M. With the CP/M library stacked on top of the C64's,
Designed largely by Bil Herd, with Dave Haynie and Frank Palaia among the engineers, the C128 sold about 2.5 million units over its four-year production run before being discontinued in 1989. It was the last 8-bit home computer Commodore ever released, closing the book on an era with a machine that honored everything that came before it.
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It drew the line, in water or oil, right to the very end.
The first network hung up so the whole world could log on.
It dialed out one last time and let White Knight take the call.