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Imagine computer hardware peaked with a Socialist knock-off of the Commodore 64. Home computers are equipped with processors of up to a few megahertz, operate at eight bits, and have as much storage as your cassette rack can hold. What would the internet be like? What would social media be like? Would it be as addictive, or would it just be of quaint interest? 

The Komodor (stylised as komodor_84 or K84) is a fictional Bulgarian personal computer situated somewhere between a Pravetz8 series and a Commodore 64 or 128. Imagine it has expanded memory and a graphics co-processor, able to take it a little beyond those machines in terms of quantity, if not quality, in images and sound. 

The komodor_84 was also the first East Bloc computer capable of using the socialist form of the world wide web, or OGAS, where private persons can host small web spaces for personal projects like photography. Perhaps the komodor_84 can connect to the new Lubitel-D digital camera and upload 8 bit, 720x720 photographs. 

What would our lives be like had this been the peak of computing power? Would it be materially better or worse? Would it be emotionally better or worse? What do we lose by having a cap on the best possible computer hardware and what do we gain?

The komodor_84 can try and answer those questions. Quite slowly. 

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