Paper plots of Commodore chip layouts
As I mentioned in a previous post, Sandy Roshong Fisher worked on Commodore’s IC layout team in West Chester, PA from February, 1982 through June, 1993 when she was laid off. During that time...
Commodore International Historical Society Blog
Commodore internal org charts and phone lists
Sandy Roshong Fisher saved several internal Commodore org charts and phone lists during her time with the company. Here they are shared exactly as she scanned them. Org Charts Telephone Lists
Sandy Fisher memories
Sandy Roshong was hired by Commodore in 1982 in their IC Layout Department. She eventually married Terry Fisher, also a Commodore employee, and took his last name in marriage. This post is a simple...
Commodore’s Early Expansion to the United States
Commodore’s Expansion into the United States Commodore was founded on October 10, 1958 as Commodore Portable Typewriter Company Limited in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This post will shed some light on their early expansion into...
CP/M for the Commodore 64
CP/M was an operating system written by Gary Kildall, the founder of Digital Research, Inc, in 1974 which enjoyed early widespread popularity. As early as 1979, Commodore’s VP of Marketing, Dennis Barnhart, proposed CP/M...
The Commodore DryCopy Thermographic copying machine
Commodore DryCopy In early 1962, Commodore expanded into the field of copying machines by creating two new subsidiaries: Commodore Drycopy, Inc. (New York) and Commodore Drycopy, Ltd. (Toronto). Commodore studied the three major copying...
Commodore’s history as a publicly traded company
Commodore’s history as a publicly traded company Commodore began as a legal entity on October 10, 1958 as a privately-owned company named Commodore Portable Typewriter Company Limited. A mere four years after Commodore was...
Commodore at the National Computer Conference
John Feagans’ photos from the National Computer Conference These are photos taken by former Commodore engineer John Feagans when Commodore had exhibits at the National Computer Conference. May 1980 – Anaheim, California May 1981...
Commodore Colt PC XT clone
Commodore Colt PC XT clone photo gallery This post is primary intended to be a photo gallery of a Commodore Colt PC XT clone, but I’ll include a small amount of historical information so...
Early Commodore 64 production and production engineering
An early silver-label Commodore 64 This is primarily intended to be a photo gallery post, but I’m including a small amount of historical information so the origins of this system and where it fits...
Gail Wellington: far more than just a herder of CATS and mother of CDTV
From the moment I first saw Gail Wellington in Dave Haynie’s “Deathbed Vigil” video about Commodore’s demise, I knew I had to learn more about her. The more I’ve learned about her, the more...