I would really like to say I owned a Commodore 64. Back on 1982, this 8-bit wonder was the thing to get if you were into technology and the emerging world of home computing. Millions of C64s were sold, 10,000 software titles were created and it still stands as one of the best-selling personal computers of all time.

But I didn't have a C64; I got a Vic-20, a C64 predecessor that, like all tech predecessors, was less powerful, less cool and less coveted.

So I was very pleased when I sat down to watch the Computer History Museum's Commodore 64--25th Anniversary Celebration video on YouTube. It opens with host John Toole telling the crowd he bought his two young boys a Vic-20 in the 1970s because he couldn't afford an Apple IIc. The story validated my own Vic-20 childhood.

But my personal history aside, the C64 25th anniversary celebration is worth watching. Recorded in December of last year, it includes presentations from Adam Chowaniec, a former VP of technology at Commodore and a developer at Amiga; William Lowe of NEPS and formerly a president at IBM; Jack Tramiel, a founder and CEO at Commodore and former president and CEO of Atari; and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.

The video is available here. Stick through the long, long intro: the content that follows is worth the wait.

Peter Wolchak