In 1992, the Commodore 64 was fading. You may be surprised to hear it was still the number three gaming computer in terms of market share in the United States, but its growth years were in the distant past. That year, a new third party disk drive appeared or the C-64. Sometimes when you do something for the last time, you don’t realize it will be the last. In this case, I think everyone knew these drives were the end of the line. But what a finale they were.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.
