64 Mania: the C64 and Commodore’s home computers

At the Museo degli Strumenti per il Calcolo (Museum of Computing Machinery), an exhibition devoted to the Commodore 64, king of home computers and 80s techie icon

from 08 Oct to 11 Oct 09:00 - 18:00Thu, Fri, Sat 09:00/18:00 + Sun. 09:00/13:00

With home computers you could play, obviously. You could use them to write and do sums, draw and navigate (using a modem, on bulletin boards; the internet existed, but it was for the military and researchers). But above all, when you switched it on you had a programmable system, and you were caught up in the curiosity of building programmes, a game just like Meccano or Lego. Thus a generation of IT experts was born.