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** Commodore 64 ** is an 8 bit home computer released by commodore international in August 1982 at a price of $595. Preceded by the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore MAX Machine, the C64 features 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM with sound and graphics performance that were superior to IBM-compatible computers of that time. It is commonly referred to as the **C64** or **C=64** and occasionally known as **CBM 64** (Commodore Business Machines Model number 64), or **VIC-64** It has also been affectionately nicknamed the "breadbox" and "bull nose" due to the shape and colors of the first version of its casing. DOS: Department of State: the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in an operating system that is on a disk. ** DOS **, short for "Disk Operating System is a shorthand term for several closely related operating system that dominated the market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, 98 and Me. Related systems include MS-DOS, PC DOS DR-DOS, Free DOS PTS-DOSROM-DOS JM-OS, and several others. Prodigy: Communications Corp., an Internet service provider, serves both owned and managed dial and DSL subscribers. Products and services include Prodigy Instant Messaging Prodigy Chat; Prodigy Online Communities; Prodigy, a suite of specially designed Internet products and services for small business owners; and Prodigy WebTV: In September, 1996, Sony and Phillips introduced the first WebTV set-top boxes from WebTV Networks, Inc. They became known as WebTV Classic, sometimes called the WebTV Internet Terminal. In December 1997, a second generation of set box was introduced, which is known as the WebTV Plus. The new unit includes a TV tuner and integrates the TV and Web worlds.
 * The Timex Sinclair ** 1000 was the first computers invented in 1982. The TS1000 was a slightly modified Sinclair ZX81 with an NTSC RF modular instead of a UK device and the onboard doubled to two KBs. The TS1000's casing had slightly more internal shielding but remained the same as Sinclair's, including the member. It had black & white graphics, and no sound. It was followed by an improved version, the Timex Sinclair 1500. To make the membrane keyboard less cumbersome for program entry the TS1000 used a shortcut system of one-letter "keywords" for most commands (i.e. pressing Shift-"P" would generate the keyword "PRINT"). Some keywords required a short sequence of keystrokes (e.g. SHIFT-ENTER S would generate the keyword "LPRINT"). The TS1000 clued the user in on what to expect by changing the cursor to reflect the current input mode. The TS1000was sold for $99.95 in the US the cheapest home computer at that time. The black and white display showed 32 columns and 24 lines. The only problem was shortage of memory which lacked with software .So over time; the TS1000 spawned an enormous cottage industry of third-party add-ons designed to help remedy its limitations. Full-size keyboards, speech synthesizers, sound generators, disk drives, and memory expansions (up to 64K) were a few of the options available. Languages like Forth and Pascal as well as BASIC compilers, and assemblers augmented the TS1000's programming possibilities. In 1983 they came up with a wire up external full size key boards. So the new version was the TS1500.