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LOS ANGELES — Commodore 64, the popular personal computer in the 1980s, is back — with the same bulky breadbox look and updated technology.
Appealing to nostalgic computer buffs, a Florida company re-created the PC and began selling it Tuesday. The company, Commodore USA, said it sold out the first batch in 24 hours. It declined to say how many units that was. The company licensed the rights to the Commodore trademark last September.
The price for the new Commodore 64 basic model is even the same as it was for a similar base unit in 1982: $595. The original had 64 kilobytes of memory. The new one has about 4 million kilobytes.
