Commodore International Historical Society Blog

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How many c64 (and c128) were actually sold?

10,594,000 total unit sales of the Commodore 64 throughout the lifetime of the company. 1,756,000 total unit sales of the Commodore 128 throughout the lifetime of the company. 12,350,000 combined unit sales of the...

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The Commodore Programmable Thermostat

The Commodore Programmable Thermostat One of the lesser-known, non-computer items that Commodore put to market was a programmable thermostat, released by Commodore’s consumer products division. It was intended to provide increased energy efficiency for...

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Commodore “Vixen” History

Drawing from a number of sources including Brian Bagnall’s Commodore: A Company on the Edge, internal documents provided by Michael Tomczyk, various discussions in the Commodore International Historical Society Facebook group, and a litany...

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The Challenges of Document Preservation

Commodore historians are perhaps fortunate that in the earliest years of the company, Commodore ran somewhat afoul of the authorities due to their relationship with the Atlantic Acceptance Corporation.  Atlantic Acceptance was a Canadian...

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The History of the Commodore ChessMate

In 1978, Commodore International Limited released the ChessMate.  ChessMate was a consumer electronic chess playing device.  From all outward appearances, it looked similar enough to many of the other popular consumer electronic devices of...

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Commodore’s Unreleased C64 Game Machine

In 1990, Commodore released the C64GS.  “GS” stood for “Games System”.  It was Commodore’s attempt to have the wildly successful Commodore 64 compete in the game console market.  On the surface, this doesn’t seem...