About This Video
Take a nostalgic trip back to the 1980s with the story of how a Commodore Christmas demo running on an SX-64 display system at my local Kmart unexpectedly ended up coming home with me on a floppy disk.
My Grandmother asked Andy, the sales guy in the computer department, if we could purchase the program. He explained that it only came with the Commodore SX-64, which was $1,000 USD, so that wasn't going to happen.
She then told Andy, "Oh, my Grandson would really like to get that program." Andy said he'd be right back and disappeared for a few minutes. When he returned, he handed me a floppy disk with a handwritten label containing a copy of the demo. My first pirated program! LOL.
Items Featured:
- Andy's handwritten Christmas SX-64 demo floppy disk
- Original Commodore SX-64 test demo disk
More than three decades later, that original floppy disk still works. In this video, I revisit the demo and share it alongside an official Commodore SX-64 demo disk that came with my own SX-64 system acquired many years later.
It's a small piece of personal Commodore history that I've managed to hold onto all these years and a fun reminder of what it was like discovering computers in the 1980s.
Explore more hardware, projects, and information in my Commodore SX-64 System Guide.