This
is the year in which one of the most successful computers ever was introduced,
the Commodore 64. This machine is build around the 6502 chip and was sold
at a retail price of 595 USD. The total estimation of sales vary between
17 and 22 million computers. The Commodore 64 is also the first computer
with a sound synthesizer chip (named: SID, Sound Interface Device), designed
by Bob Yannes.