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A restyled Commodore 64, including GEOS software, has begun to retail for a suggested $329.95. Known as the 64C, rather than as the C64, it also comes with QuantumLink, a telecommunications package which through an extra-cost modem can hook users into other data bases and allow them to communicate with each other using electronic mail.
A similar software approach to the one pioneered in the mass market by Apple Computer Inc. with its Macintosh personal computer has arrived for the more than 6 million people - more than 500,000 of them Canadians - who already own a Commodore 64.
Commodore Business Machines Ltd. of Toronto, along with parent Commodore International Ltd. of West Chester, Pa., this month launched a low-priced software upgrade called GEOS, for Graphic Environment Operating System. It transforms both the Commodore 64 and its more powerful cousin, the 128, into easier-to-use computers.
With a mouse or a joystick, programs are accessed and commands executed through picture identification, rather than at the keyboard.
A flexible word-processing package, painting/design tools and such utilities as a calculator, calendar and notepad are included. But perhaps the best feature on GEOS is its price a suggested retail of $79.95.
A restyled Commodore 64, including GEOS software, has begun to retail for a suggested $329.95. Known as the 64C, rather than as the C64, it also comes with QuantumLink, a telecommunications package which through an extra-cost modem can hook users into other data bases and allow them to communicate with each other using electronic mail.
Users of the old-style 64 who buy the GEOS upgrade also get QuantumLink as well as Odell Lake, an educational program - at no extra cost. The new 64C runs the more than 6,000 programs available for its predecessor.
Commodore 64 products are carried at many independent computer retailers and through such mass merchandisers as Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd., Zellers Inc. and K-Mart Canada Ltd.
For more information, contact the Commodore Quebec office at Suite 400, 625 President Kennedy Ave., Montreal H3A 1K2, telephone 287-9513.
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