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This #iconic #8bit #retrocomputer #vector #illustration is a #resolutionindependent #tribute to the most sold #computer model, everrr. Until 1988 #Commodore sold more #C64 #homecomputers than all #IBM compatible #PC's combined. While the #DTP #revolution was in full swing on #Apple #Macintosh #computers, some school #newspapers been created with #Pagefox back then.
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PixelfedITs History! (@gfkDSGN@pixelfed.social)1982 Commodore introduced the computer for the masses not the classes... “It writes, rates, creates, even telecommunicates. Costs less does more — the #Commodore64” This outstanding #homecomputer came with #8bit #MOS6510 #CPU, 64KB RAM and #BASIC. Initially the #C64 was sold for a little under 600 bucks, but competition was brutal in the #8bit-war. https://youtu.be/E9nDsIvUto4 With prices dropping #Commodore sold two million units annually and had a market share up to 40% in the US until 1986. At one point, the company was selling as many C64s as the rest of the industry combined. Even when #IBM #PC 5150 compatible #16bit systems changed that in 1988, the #C=64 became highest-selling computer model of all time. Our #vector #graphic #retrocomputer #art wasn't realized in old #Adobe #PostScript #vectorgraphics #tech with #Ai #Illustrator, but in #svg #technology with #FreeSoftware #Inkscape
1982 Commodore introduced the computer for the masses not the classes...
“It writes, rates, creates, even telecommunicates. Costs less does more — the #Commodore64

This outstanding #homecomputer came with #8bit #MOS6510 #CPU, 64KB RAM and #BASIC. Initially the #C64 was sold for a little under 600 bucks, but competition was brutal in the #8bit-war. https://youtu.be/E9nDsIvUto4

With prices dropping #Commodore sold two million units annually and had a market share up to 40% in the US until 1986.
At one point, the company was selling as many C64s as the rest of the industry combined.

Even when #IBM #PC 5150 compatible #16bit systems changed that in 1988, the #C=64 became highest-selling computer model of all time.

Our #vector #graphic #retrocomputer #art wasn't realized in old #Adobe #PostScript #vectorgraphics #tech with #Ai #Illustrator, but in #svg #technology with #FreeSoftware #Inkscape

IBM unveils z17 mainframe, z/OS 3.2

IBM today announced the IBM z17, the next generation of the company's iconic mainframe, fully engineered with AI capabilities across hardware, software, and systems operations. Powered by the new IBM Telum II processor, IBM z17 expands the system's capabilities beyond transactional AI capabilities to enable new workloads.
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Als Student arbeitete er auf einem Bauernhof oder schlug Weihnachtsbäume. Später machte Heinz Nixdorf seine Computerfirma zum Weltkonzern. Über eine geniale Gründergestalt der Bundesrepublik – und deren fatale Entscheidung.#HeinzNixdorf #WincorNixdorf #Computer #IBM #Apple
Computer-Pionier Heinz Nixdorf: Das Wunderkind, das Apple ignorierte
DER SPIEGEL · Computer-Pionier Heinz Nixdorf: Das Wunderkind, das Apple ignorierteBy Frank Thadeusz