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...
The Commodore 8010 acoustic coupler modem appears to have been released around 1980, based on the hand written dates on the PCB of the device I have. I recently picked this one up from...
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...
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...
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...
Jack Tramiel and Manfred Kapp weren’t strictly in the typewriter business even from their earliest business ventures together. Nearly all of their ventures focused on office equipment generally, rather than typewriters or adding machines...
The Personal Electronic Transactor (PET) featured here is Serial #001001, owned by Don Greenbaum, the former Treasurer of Commodore International. This was the first serial number issued by Commodore for a PET, but it’s...
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...
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...
Yes, you read that correctly: there was a Commodore VIC-21 computer, but it’s probably not what you’re thinking. This wasn’t a follow up to the VIC-20 created by Commodore International. No, the Commodore VIC-21...
