On Mülheim’s Muhrenkamp at the North end of the Eduardstrasse, you can actually see the top part of the old house that is standing down on the Dickswall… and if you look just at the right angle, it seems like one of the highrises is sprouting from its roof.
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The brains of the C64 – the 6510 was the slightly modified version of the legendary 6502 CPU that had been introduced in 1975 and was not only used in the C64, but also in countless other 8-bit computers and game consoles like the Apple II, BBC Micro, Atari 400/800, Atari 2600 and the NES.

Flaming Schlumbergera Cactus Flower :-).

The Oxeye Daisies were still at it on January 6!

This is the East end of Mülheim’s Muhrenkamp with three of the older houses on the right and then after the end of the Eduardstrasse the block of houses we live in. On the left is only a long wall because at this point, the street level drops about ten meters down to the Dickswall.
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This chip needs a photo all by itself, because it’s the C64’s music machine – the SID, Sound Interface Device, here in its original 6581 incarnation manufactured in the first week of 1984.

This blossom opened surprisingly fast!

One more photo of the European Nightshade blossom from January 1st –
here you can see the berries it has produced.

The view down onto Mülheim’s little side street called Bocksberg from up on the Muhrenkamp. This is the shortcut from our neighbourhood into the inner city and the shopping mall around the highrises, of which you can see two in the background. The actual path goes down to the lower street, the Dickswall, while the pedestrian bridge crosses over it. The house complex at the left was actually built only in the early 1990s and is one of the newest buildings in this neighbourhood.
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The C64’s memory chips. 64 kilobytes RAM and 20 kilobytes of ROM was all it needed. This photo alone is more than 10 times as large as the C64’s memory and would not even fit on a whole floppy disk!