The Commodore 128D was the last 8-bit home computer Commodore ever made, unveiled in January 1985 at CES in Las Vegas, three years after the Commodore 64 — the bestselling computer of the 1980s. It ran nearly all C64 software while adding 128 KB of RAM, a proper keyboard with a numeric keypad and function keys, 80-column color video, and a Zilog Z80 CPU that could boot CP/M. Designed largely by Bil Herd, with Dave Haynie and Frank Palaia among the engineers, it was a machine that could be three computers at once and never lost its manners. About 2.5 million people brought one home, and plenty of us never quite left.
Production ended in 1989. When it went, so did Commodore's 8-bit era — the C128D was the last machine of its kind to carry the logo, the final page of a chapter that started the home computing revolution for millions. There was no successor waiting in the wings, no handoff. Just a quiet end to a line of computers that taught a generation what a machine could do.
We ask Commodore to bring the Commodore 128D back — a limited run, a faithful revival, anything built with the care this machine deserves. The 2.5 million who bought one weren't a fluke, and the people signing below aren't nostalgia tourists. We're users who remember what it felt like to sit down at a keyboard this good, and we'd like to sit down at it again.
— filed by the fans of Commodore 128D, at products.rip
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