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Oh wow, that made me feel old. I actually read that article just before making the switch from the Radio Shack TRS-80 ecosystem to Commodore. See the Tussey ad for a 64C with an FSD-2 floppy? I bought that package from them with a repackaged c.Itoh thermal printer. It actually had the mail-in redemption offer the Commodore guy referred to in the article.

It felt like I had that C64 forever. I learned CBM BASIC, 6502 assembler, and even K

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Awesome! It was such a rare time. Nothing like it will ever occur again I don’t think..

There were SO many Commodore ads and articles in that magazine. I’m guessing this was a version of Compute! just geared toward Commodore correct?

It’s called “Compute!’s Gazette For Commodore Personal Computer Users”, so: yes.

I did see that but just wasn’t sure as I remember Compute! being more general purpose and I guess never realized they had offshoots oriented to specific platforms

If I recall correctly, the C64 was the only machine they did this for.

No, COMPUTE!'s Gazette was not C64 specific. It covered all the Commodore 8-bit home systems: VIC-20, C64, Commodore 16/Plus/4, C128. It started with the VIC-20 and C64 as that is all there was, and in the end it only covered C64/128. The C64 was certainly the only model the Gazette covered during its entire lifetime.

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