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Like all computers, your Commodore 64 processes information: it receives information (or input), does something with it, and sends it out again as output. A single chip of silicon with thousands of electronic components—in this case called the 651Ø microprocessor—endows your microcomputer with its computing power; this tiny chip is the brain of the system.
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Scrimshaw, N.B., Vogel, J. (1983). First Things First. In: An Introduction to the Commodore 64. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6787-9_1
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