“Commodore 64 My Turn (1985)”
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“Commodore 64 My Turn (1985)”
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Source: Commodore MicroComputer – Issue 40 – March April 1986
The Commodore 64 had a reputation for being a games machine and thus was often not taken very seriously but for at least the first several years of its life there were a number of productivity titles and even professional business software available.
This particular ad is from the March/April 1986 issue of Commodore MicroComputer and is for the VersaBusiness Series. This includes VersaReceivables, VersaPayables, VeraPayroll, VersaInventory, and VersaLedger II. I can’t claim to know anything about this software or what the difference was between the different versions for different machines but it was available for a lot of them including Apple II, DOS, CP/M, Macintosh, TRS-80, and of course the Commodore 64. It wasn’t cheap, $550 if you wanted it all, but they were running a special 50% discount for the Commodore version in this ad so you could have had them all for the low, low prices of $225.
Source: Run – Issue Number 72 – December 1989
RUN magazine was one of my favorite Commodore 64 magazines, the other being Commodore magazine but it also covered the Amiga. By 1989, the Commodore 64 market had been in decline for a couple of years but after 1989 the decline was precipitous. Commodore Magazine folded in 1989 and some of their columns were added to RUN. The December 1989 issue of RUN was probably the last with 100 or more pages. Lots of games were still released for the Commodore 64 in 1989 but in 1990 the quantity greatly declined. Christmas 1989 was probably that last good year for the Commodore 64, at least in the U.S.
The December 1989 issue of RUN, which I clearly remember buying and is still sitting here on a shelf somewhere, includes:
…and more!