Too Much Fun - The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer

The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980s--the machine that taught the world that computing should be The Commodore 64 (C64) is officially the best-selling desktop computer model of all time, according to First it was a serious computer, next a game computer, then a computer for technical brilliance (graphical

About the author

Jesper Juul coedits the MIT Press Playful Thinking series. His previous books include Half-Real and The Art of Failure. He is Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen and has taught at MIT and New York University. His first computer was a Commodore 64, on which he wrote games and demos.

Product details

• Authors: Jesper Juul, Juul Jesper
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2024
• EAN: 9780262549516
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54951-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Platform Studies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; COMPUTERS / History, Information technology: general issues, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile, History of Computing, digital and information technologies