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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. The most notorious problem was “sparkle,” a defect that caused small spots of light to appear on the display screen.

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