About the ALDI Commodore 64

Interesting that they didn't use German on the keys if it was made for the German market.

I have to get one of these. What a beauty. Thanks for this research.

So it turns out that I have an ALDI, that I bought in Sweden.
Everything checks out with your video, serial number and everyting!
Found it at a flea market for 120 crowns back in 96 or 97 :)
It must have an interesting story! There's a repair sticker from a store in Landskrona that I had to work around when I opened it to fix the keyboard.
Thanks for the video, just what I needed to confirm my hunch :D

I hacked the crap out of the C=64 down to the bare metal... but can't say I miss it. I'm here, but no interest to pull the 8032, C128,128D, Vic, or 64's out of the barn. And I scored a pile of them all in one lot of a bunch of other 8bit antiques... none of those are my original machine. Just like... yuk. I wish I could take them all and send them back in time to when I was younger.

Click... click. Click.... click.... click. Click. Click. Click..........

Not annoying at all...

So, in other words, it's a complete Commodore 64 with nothing missing except maybe some weird SID bugs missing from the original that make some pieces of computer music sound wrong?

Ist der Aldi aus Witten in der Arthur Immhausen Straße?

Yan beta 😊

Wir haben kein Aldi in Costa Rica, aber wenn schon, dann möchte ich nicht Aldi Süd (wie in den USA), sondern lieber Aldi Nord (wie in Hamburg). Wurde dieser C 64 von beiden Aldi-Ketten verkauft, oder nur Aldi Nord/Süd?

I had the same one, even with the "broken" SID chip! Since I wanted to have the Amiga 500 I had to sell my ALDI C64 which I regret so bad now... I wish I could get it back...

Was that a ghost sticker of some form on the back of your chair back then or am i seeing things mr beta :D

I have this model, can we make mods like sid2sid and jiffydos mod??

The C64 I got as a kid in 2007 (I asked for it!) was a C64G, very close to the Aldi, same board, although with the further costreduced printed keys and flat badges.

Hi Jan!


I got myself a really interesting C64 the other day, that bears all the signs of the Aldi C64, except the keyboard: it has the earlier black keyboard mechanism. But it has that off-center Made in USA / CA serial number sticker, also the sticker on the side. It has the 250469, rev. 3 board. What could this thing be? An Aldi 64 with a replacement keyboard, or the standard Commodore method of just throwing together every component they had in the warehouse?
Anyway, it was probably used as the control unit of some industrial machinery, as it was soaked in oil on the inside, and decades of dust ate itself into the oil. It took me a gallon of isorpopyl alcohol and dozens of cotton buds to clean it up :D


Cheers,


David

When I was a kid I had the exact same desk chair then you had in white :-) And a bread bin C64. Very nice channel and greetings from Austria...

Man I remember Aldi used to have a bad rep back in the day here in Britain (Not as bad as Netto lol I remember if your mum shopped at Netto is was soooo embarrassing and you would get the piss taken out of you at school). Then a few years ago Aldi (and Lidl) blew the fuck up BIG TIME. Now they're huge.

Finally today manage to get on C64 aldi :), bought here in Croatia on local auction site. But this video was helpful to determine that machine is genuine, thanks Jan :)

Hey Jan, thanks so much for that story! I’m originally from Bavaria and bought my C64 in November of 1985 at a local electrician’s shop. Different world back then… The C64 was 500DM, the 1541 was 550DM. I was in an apprenticeship at age 17 at the time so this was the largest purchase I had made to date by about a factor of 10 (I was very “sparsam” otherwise). I loved my C64 so much! I programmed a ton in C64 basic, Simons Basic, and a bit of Assembler. I also had the rare 1520 plotter and wrote a ton of programs for the plotter’s 4-color graphics, maybe the most fun I ever had with a computer. Some of my favorite games were Boulder Dash and Pit Stop II. I also had large stacks of 64’er and RUN magazines which I read religiously. I kept the C64 until 1994, even though I bought an Amiga 500 in 1988, another magical machine for me at the time. First love…
Fast forward 35 years. I now live in the U.S., in a small town called West Chester, Pennsylvania but I still have a lot of ties to friends and family in Germany. Much to my surprise, I found out a while ago that the center of the universe of my youth (Commodore headquarters) is right next to where I live now! The current QVC headquarters building formerly housed Commodore, and is 5km away from where I am sitting right now!!! What are the chances of that??? So last night, I happened to see the C64 Maxi on German Amazon (thanks Jeff Bezos…) and went down the rabbit hole to eventually find and install the X64 emulator. After all these years, I still remembered the basics of C64 Basic. Sometimes, I have to ask my kids their names, that’s how bad my memory is at times ;-) I shared some of this with my 17 year old son (weird coincidence) who was really interested…
I know this is a weird offer for a German but if you ever come to the U.S. East Coast, shoot me a message and maybe you’d like to stop by. Sometimes you just know you have a lot in common with someone.
Now I got to check out some of your other videos. Auf Wiedersehen!

Interesting story. Aldi is taking off here in the US. We shop there often. In a way, I'm not surprised there is an Aldi C=64. On occasion, odd things pop up in their store. They obviously grab cheap inventory of merchandise you might not typically find in a grocery store. Some of the items make me scratch my head. Great store, though.

Nice video!!!

You sound German I’m from Germany

West Germany Aldi :)

Aldi UK have announced they are going to sell online in time for black friday apple airpods for £89.99 and refurbished 64GB iphone 8s for £199.99

Isn't Trader Joe's a subsidiary of Aldis?

Not sure why you got some dislikes, but I thought it was excellent and nice history

299DM would be more like 280€ now.

The Commodore !6 is better than that.

I potentially have a chance to buy one of these with original box but no manual/paperwork. What did this originally come with? Any idea?

Lots of C64G's in Switzerland.
Maybe they were cheaper and ppl were importing them ?

Auch wenn 299 Mark tatsächlich umgerechnet ~150 Euro sind; Von der Kaufkraft heute (Inflation berücksichtigt) wäre der Preis eher vergleichbar mit knapp 300 Euro ;-) Danke für Deine Videos. Sehr unterhaltsam und vor Allem informativ :-)

I always thought I had an Aldi C64 here, but now I'm not sure what the heck this machine is: It's Made in W.-Germany with a serial no. WG A457206. The label says "C64", not C64G. The case is yellowed, but clearly has the same color as the Aldi C64, not the much lighter color of the C64G. The case has got port descriptions. The computer also has got the same keyboard as the Aldi, not the new one of the C64C or C64G and it's got the same board revision as in this video: PCB ASSY NO. 250469, PCB NO.252311 REV.3. All the chips were manufactured in 1987. The integrated PLA/logic chip has got a MOS logo on it.
Can anybody tell what this variant actually is?

299DM for a C64 in 1987 was a steal.

At the time, my father bought one in a Vobis shop. They sold them, too.

schade das es nicht auf deutsch ,sondern in einem möchtegern englisch daher kommt wobei jeder merkt, das man es besser in der Muttersprache hätte machen sollen.

I see that you have this one now because you like having it. So was your old one sold simply because it was your parents' and you didn't have that much control over whether they sold it or kept it. or...?

"64'er"? Ha, I wonder why they thought the apostrophe would make sense there. Why not just "64er"?

ich habe einen aldi c64 bekommen vor paar wochen.der war aus einem intershop und laut quittung im mai`89 gekauft und am 2.nov.89 abgeholt...das gerät kam da 998 DM (in forum schecks)...;-) ....danke für den clip und weiterso!! de GrauKappe aus Chemnitz

Great video. But the whiter C64-G was sold in many countries for years I believe, beginning around 1988, alongside C-model. I remember them in Norway and I got one myself. Maybe the G breadbin case was cheaper to produce than the C model case.

Just went in my first ALDI in US a few weeks ago.

hi,

just wondering if a keyboard that looks exactly like this with the sticker on the underside "10860602 or it could be 10860802" could be an aldi model keyboard.

Einwohner member Sid C64 from Aldi! Thank you very much for this Clip!!! I was ten years old and I think the Aldi C64 ,we thinking this was a new C64 and the "new' C64 was better than the*old64*😊👍

What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito?

Well it looks like i can call myself almost a Commodore 'Aldi' family member.
Just found one for sale here in NL and about to close the deal.
€85,- for an untested model with a C2N, totally worth the gamble.

I kinda remember those indeed being sold at the german Aldi stores as a 5 year old kid from NL.
But maybe that's also because i live near the border i guess, since Papenburg, Bunde (Ems) and Leer are almost next door for me anyway.

And i'm also still currently restoring a VC-20, which i bought in Neukamperfehn.
Ya just gotta love restoring these old classics.

Interesting. First time I heard this.

how can aldi sell computers ?? bit strange this is

Interesting video, especially hearing that these were Germany-only. In the US I used a hand-me-down breadbin C64 with white keys, and wondered what the story was on it.

Hallo Jan Beta, Dein Beitrag ist darüber hinaus insofern interessant, dass Deine abgefilmte Seite der Zeitschrift besagt, dass diese nicht offiziell in die DDR eingeführt werden durfte! Das ist wiederum für mich als ehemaligem DDR-Bürger interessant! Es gab westliche Publikationen in der DDR, die ich selbst erwerben bzw. in einer Bibliothek ausleihen konnte!

No wonder I love Aldi's!!!