Make Windows 7 Look Like a Commodore 64
Way back in the Mesozoic era of computing (also known as the early 1980s), we didn’t have slick little netbooks or big, powerful desktops. Businesses that used computers at all generally relied on Unix servers or ancient mainframes driving terminals at employees’ workstations. Meanwhile, home users could choose from a narrow assortment of systems, none of which bear much resemblance to the array of computers for sale today; and one of the most popular models back then was the Commodore 64.
The makers of the C-64 included a hard-coded copy of BASIC on its internal ROM so you wouldn’t have to boot from a 5.25-inch floppy disk, as you did with most contemporaneous PCs. The machine had a generous 64 kilobytes of memory, and you loaded programs into it from a tape drive–eventually to be superseded by a painfully slow floppy disk drive (the legendary 1541).
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