Commodore computers

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Commodore computers, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

CD caddy is clunky and the interface is unintuitive2025-05-18
CP/M implementation is so slow it is practically unusable for regular work2025-05-13
Couldn't figure out how to type the equals sign; had to click a cell2020-02-24
Changing the display needs indirect register writes and polling for readiness2013-12-16