C.<p>There's been a flurry of coverage over the last week or two about the "reborn" Commodore 64 home computer. A company bought the name (and other IP rights) and is issuing a claimed fully-compatible update of the classic machine.</p><p>You can argue about how faithful a reproduction it is; it's not using the original 6510 CPU and other support chips, but rather is done on an FPGA. They claim it's not emulation, but arguably it is - it's being emulated in hardware, rather than in software.</p><p>But the funniest thing to me is that 43 years after the introduction of the C64, with the way computing prices have plummeted for that whole stretch, the base model of the new one is more expensive than the original was. It's US $349, while the C64's price quickly dropped to $199 after its introduction.</p><p>Yes, I know about inflation and the rest. I still find it funny.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Commodore64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore64</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C64</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/FPGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPGA</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/emulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emulation</span></a></p>