09.12.06

C64 Use as an Indicator of Mental Illness

Posted in Technology at 7:10 am by Jason G.

…The kidnapper “relied exclusively on a Commodore 64 computer — a model popular in the 1980s but now considered an antique.

Lang told reporters the outmoded computer would complicate investigators’ efforts to transfer files for closer examination later, saying it would be difficult “to transmit the data to a modern computer without loss.”

-CNN

It’s sad when we don’t remember how to load cartridges and retrieve the data on them…