# What did the Commodore Vic 20 (or contemporaries) do?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 5, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-commodore-vic-20-or-contemporaries-do/577326 "2011-04-05T22:49:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-commodore-vic-20-or-contemporaries-do/577326/161 "2011-09-19T04:02:38Z")

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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PhfuSPg3kXQ/hqdefault.jpg "Vicual MMIX - VIC-20 demo 2009") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhfuSPg3kXQ)

1 mHz. 3.5k RAM. And kids these days don’t understand why guys my age are completely unimpressed by what can be done with gigahertz and gigabytes. You need that much? It’s sloppy code.

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