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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
The summer 1983 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was held in Chicago, IL (USA) at the Chicago Convention Center and two hotels from June 5 through June 8, 1983. 80,000 people attended the event to...
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...
