Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!seismo!nbires!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!csun!cs1!cacscmst From: cacscmst@cs1.UUCP (Michael Steven Temkin) Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Re: What is a Commodore 64C ???? Message-ID: <221@cs1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jul-86 17:06:56 EDT Article-I.D.: cs1.221 Posted: Wed Jul 2 17:06:56 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jul-86 09:04:21 EDT References: <3425@amdahl.UUCP> <476@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Organization: Calif State Univ, Northridge, Computer Science Dept Lines: 38 Keywords: What the heck is it? Summary: Not just any software... In article <476@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: > In article <3425@amdahl.UUCP> dwl10@amdahl.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) writes: > >I was wandering through my neighborhood TOYS R US store and > >noticed a new computer, the "Commodore 64C". > > > >Anybody know anything about this beast? What is new/different/exciting > >about it?. > > It is basically the same C64 with C128 compatible sytling and some > software bundled in. People still buy the C64 in large quanitites, > and it kept looking uglier every year... > -- The software is not just any software bundled in, it is the new GEOS operating system which runs rings around the standard operating system. It also includes a communications software package of which the name escapes me at the moment. It is a good deal if you are looking to buy a 64, but GEOS is out on its own for $59.95 at software stores. The GEOS system looks like a Mac O.S., and it acts like one too. It gives you icons for your files on disk (seq, prg, and usr are all represented by different icons) so you can use a joystick or mouse to select and click a file. It also keeps the dates of creation and I believe of last modification on disk, where I don't know. However I suspect it is on tracks 36-40. It comes with other desk accessories as well as a MacPaint and MacWrite type software. A review was in RUN magazine June edition I believe. .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Mike Temkin ...ihnp4!csun!cs1!cacscmst ...psivax!csun!cs1!cacscmst ...ttidca!csun!cs1!cacscmst Ours is not to question why...or is it? .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.