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Tom's hardware review of this thing. It says the Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release. In 30 years, over 30 years, pre-orders start at $299. It says no software emulation. This painful recreation of the original runs on an AMD Artist 7 FPGA. So it looks like they've actually implemented an FPGA, all the original instructions and the interface. So I guess I'm going to spin it around. I mean, I have a TI-99 Ford A in the box in my garage somewhere. Um, what are you thinking? Are you getting teased by this thing or what? I was never a Commodore fan. I mean, it had the USB, which is definitely kind of more not really retro there. Yeah, uh, yeah, in VGA, yeah, interesting. Uh, yeah, so it's trying to, it says that it's compatible with 10,000 programs from the original day. So, uh, yeah, and it's interesting. It looks like the original Commodore. It does. Anyway, that's all I got. Just some food for throwback Fridays. Yeah, that kind of goes with what Greg was talking about there, the Penn State's computer fair that they're having at the, uh, at Mountain, the computer, uh, the museum there, the history museum in Mountain View. So, yeah, I'm sure the Commodore 64, the 64, I know that the museum has Commodore 64s to show up. Yeah, I came in on the 20, the big 20, the 64, went up to the 128, diverse, but didn't go to the Amiga, I went PC, so I went, I ended up jumping to Z80 from 128, and, uh, then I was like, man, I'm using a big boy's computer. Yeah, yeah, basically, I was involved in the IBM PC when they first came out there. Yeah, like I say, back then, you were either in the Intel camp or you were in the, uh, the Motorola camp, you know, being a 65, would do being an offshoot of the Motorola 6800, but, uh, so it's not like you actually crossed over there when you, uh, went from, uh, Motorola to Intel. I did, I did indeed. And do you remember, you know, earlier iterations of Windows where you had an Intel version and you had an AMD version, because the instruction sets weren't the same? I'm like, how do you consider yourself compatible if you have a different instruction set?