From the spot-on design of the packaging down to the perfection of the keyboard in every way, the Commodore 64 Ultimate is ...

Back in the day, Commodore 64 was the gaming machine. The 8-Bit computer, which launched in 1982 (the same year TRON hit theaters), may have been great for BASIC programming, but I used it mostly for ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born in a ...

Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.