Someone Got YouTube Playing on a 40-Year-Old Computer – Gizmodo

Some of the best hacks don’t solve any real world problems or reinvent the wheel. They’re usually nothing more than an exercise in trying to make something work that is either seemingly impossible or pointless: such as getting YouTube to work on a 40-year-old computer with a hideously outdated display.Although best known for the incredibly popular Commodore 64 8-bit computer that would go on to sell well over 12 million units around the world, Commodore was actually founded in 1958, long before the C64 arrived, and was partly responsible for the personal computer revolution in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. In 1977, Commodore released the PET computer (named in an attempt to make computers feel like part of the family and less intimidating) which looks laughably outdated now but sold for well over $3,500 when introduced 45 years ago.Thorbjörn Jemander managed to acquire a rare Commodore PET 600 which it turns out was secretly a Commodore 8296 SK model (with SK referring to a separate keyboard that could be removed) rebadged for the Swedish market a few years later with a surprisingly decent 128 KB of memory. The machine’s most distinctive feature is a monochromatic bright green CRT display…
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