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No, that was no Commodore. This a real new Commodore 64, daymit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV

In response to that other thread about females in tech, this was designed by a very successful female entrepreneur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth

Oh, Ellsworth is amazing. As that article mentions in passing, she did enough research to successfully make transistors from scratch in a pottery kiln.

http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/2545

Funny, I posted that link a couple of hours ago :)

So you did! I stumbled across her work at Maker Faire (too stunned to fanboy, thankfully) and I keep thinking it's a shame she isn't better known.

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