C128D
| C128D | |
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| Type: | Home Computer |
| Producer: | Commodore |
| Price: | US $499.95 |
| Released: | 1985 |
| Discontinued: | - |
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| Memory: | 128 KByte, upgradeable |
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The Commodore 128D was released in 1985 priced at $499.95. The D stands for Desktop, meaning the computer is a C128 housed in a PC-style desktop unit with a 5 ¼-inch floppy disk, separate keyboard, and separate monitor. Aimed at businesses looking for a cheap but serious office computer, it included an uprated 6502 processor (the 8502), Z80, and CP/M, giving it access to thousands of business programs. Despite its dual processor, it could run C64 programs.
Its profusion of features and operating modes made the C128/C128D a tantalizing offer for 1980s prosumers, but by 1985 the 8-bit machines were already giving way to the newly available 16-bit computers.
Later a low-budget version of a C128D was produced and named C128DCR.
See C128 for further details.
