Commodore International

                                       1962-1984

        Commodore 8-bit Computers and Calculators

               Commodore PR-100 Programmable Calculator

     The Commodore PR-100 Programmable Calculator was a programmable/scientific caluculator that was released in the early 70's. Man, if only Commodore made calculator watches. They would have rocked! The watch I have is a cheap Casio calculator watch. Then a competitor entered that line for Commodore. Texas Instruments released their calculators in 1976, and sold their parts for a cheaper price. Commodore was saved though, because the calculators soon had MOS-Technology fused  within them, keeping them up to date and throwing of TI. It kills me to write this because I love the TI calculators more than anything. Well, this just wraps up the information on the Commodore PR-100 Programmable Calculator.

     The Commodore PET 2001 was released in 1977. It was mainly used in schools back in the 80's. This gives me yet another reason to go back in time and enroll in a school in the 80's. PET stands for Personal Electronic Transactor. These beautiful machines made good school computers, thanks to their tough all-metal frame (just in case the school mental case gets a hold on one of them.)

      Craftily enough, some of the models were cleverly named Teacher's PET.  Like all 80's computers, there is always a flaw. Sure, they were perfect for school work for the students and teachers, but failed miserably as home computers. The graphics and sounds just didn't make it to entertain a family. THAT IS WHY I GET SO MAD WHEN PEOPLE HATE SOMETHING BECAUSE OF THE GRAPHICS!!!

     But anyway, the Commodore PET introduced the Commodore VIC-20, but that will be introduced later.

     The Commodore VIC-20 was released in 1981. It was one of Commodore's 8-bit home computers (obvioulsy, or else this wouldn't be in the 8-bit Computers Section). It had a small 5 kilobytes of RAM and contained a MOS 6502 CPU.  As you can tell, the desigon of the VIC-20 was also used by the Commodore 64 and C-16. This computer was the first to sell one million copies. Commodore (along with a lot of other computer companies) had a unique way of making their computers images visible. The Commodore VIC-20, along with the 64 had to be plugged into your tv. It wasn't great, but it got the job done.

 Commdore CBM-II

 The Commodore CBM-II was released in 1982. It had two incarnations, the P series, and the B series. It had an Atari styled joystick as a peripheral for it.

Commodore Educator 64

The Commodore Educator 64 was released in 1982. There really wasn't that much difference between this and the Commodore PET 2001. It is basically a C64 in a PET shell for condensed memory.

     The Commodore 64 was released in 1982.  This was the VIC's next installment and successor.  This computer was way ahead of it's time. MOS technology chips gave it excellent ability of  graphics and sound, and is famous for it's demo scenes. The Commodore 64 costed $595.00 back when it came out in '82.

                          Commodore SX 64

The Commodore SX 64 was Commodore's attempt at making the Commodore poratble around January of 1983. It succeded pretty well with it's own brand of Atari compatible joysticks. The games were also fun to play. It had 8-bit graphics and it was kind of like waliking around with a garagntuan suit case once folded up.

The Commodore 16 Personal Computer was released in America in 1984. It obviously has a style that was mimicked after the Commodore 64. It was  an 8-bit graphiced computer, and contained 16 kilobytes of RAM, causing it to have very unsucessful sales.

Commodore Plus\4

Like the C16, this too was released in 1984. But it was even more unsuccessful! The production line of these were discontinued in 1985! It was said to be a great buisiness computer, but only contained 64 kilobytes of ROM. So eventually, this computer died out.

Commodore LCD

Unfortunatley, this lap top was never released. It was discussed about in January of 1985, but never made it. This would have been a huge break through for computer companies everywhere too! But..It was never released.

Commodore 128

The Commodore 128 was released in 1985.  This computer was similar to the Commodore 64 and Commodore Plus/4, only it had 128 kilobytes of RAM. It also had a redesigned mouse and keypad.

Commodore 65

This was yet another Commodore computer that was never released! This was going to follow the Commodore 128 but never did.