C64 Finally Gets the SRAM Corporate Wouldn't Pay For
Hackaday Retrocomputing · July 9, 2026
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Forty years later, a hobbyist retrofit adds SRAM to the Commodore 64—a cost-cutting measure Tramiel refused in 1981 when RAM was prohibitively expensive. Hardware archaeology meets modern abundance.
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