A Golden addition to the museum

Thanks to our friend and sponsor Mica IT BV, we managed to get this limited Commodore 64 Golden Edition.

In December 1986, an unknown number of these devices were given away to authorized dealers, journalists and politicians during a celebration at the BMW Museum in Munich. At the time, the press wrote some 150 or 200 copies. The representatives of the Commodore customers made up the majority of the invitees. The press was represented by several editors, including those from Commodore Welt and Happy Computer.

The Golden Edition was a working Commodore 64 with a gold painted exterior. The inside was also painted. The case of the C64C would have been common in late 1986, but this anniversary edition referred to the C64G models and the so-called Aldi C64s, which would soon set the standard again.

The version in the HomeComputerMuseum (serial 1000227) belonged to Gerald Hahn, former press and PR manager of Commodore Germany. After his death, this Commodore 64 “Golden Edition” went to a friend, Michael Jurischka. This kept the Commodore intact and eventually it came to the HomeComputerMuseum.