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| | Commodore 16 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Commodore 16 was a home computer made by Commodore with a 6502-compatible 7501 CPU, released in 1984. | | | The C16's serial port (Commodore's proprietary "serial IEEE-488 bus", no relation to RS-232 and the like) was the same as that of the VIC and C64, which meant that printers and disk drives, at least, were interchangeable with the older machines. | | | Commodore sold a C16 family-specific cassette player (the Commodore 1531) and joysticks, but third-party converters to allow the use of the abundant, and hence much less expensive, VIC/C64-type units soon appeared. |
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| | Commodore 1540 |
| | Because of the low price of both the VIC-20 and the 1540, this combination was the first computer with a disk drive to be offered on the US market for under $1,000, although the combination of the Commodore 64 and 1541 would prove more enduring. | | | The Commodore 1540 (also known as the VIC-1540) was the companion floppy disk drive for the Commodore VIC-20 home computer. | | | The 1540 was an "intelligent peripheral" in that it had its own 6502 CPU (just like its VIC-20 host) and a resident DOS on-board in ROM – contrary to almost all other home computer systems of the time, where the DOS was loaded from a boot floppy¹ and was executed on the computer's CPU. |
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| | Commodore Plus/4 |
| | The Commodore Plus/4 was a home computer released by Commodore International in 1984 and intended to replace the Commodore 64 as its flagship computer. | | | Commodore may not have believed this to be a problem, as the successful C64 was incompatible with most VIC-20 software – but the C64 had developed a large software library by 1984, and while the C64 was a significant upgrade to the VIC-20 in almost every way, the Plus/4 was not. | | | Commodore released a high-speed floppy disk drive for the Plus/4, the Commodore 1551, which offered much better performance than the C64/ 1541 combination because its data cable plugged into the cartridge port to facilitate direct memory access, rather than using a serial bus. |
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| | Commodore 1570 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Like the 1571, its built-in DOS provided a data burst mode for transferring data to the C128 computer at a faster speed than a 1541. | | | It was a single-sided, 170KB version of the double-sided Commodore 1571, released as a stopgap measure when Commodore International was unable to provide large enough quantities of 1571s due to a shortage of double-sided drive mechanisms. | | | The 1570 utilized a 1571 logic board in a cream-colored Commodore 1541 case with a 1541 drive mechanism. |
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| | Commodore 1570 - definition of Commodore 1570 in Encyclopedia |
| | Like the 1571, its built-in DOS provided a data burst mode for transferring data to the C128 computer at a faster speed than a 1541. | | | The 1570 utilized a 1571 logic board in a cream-colored Commodore 1541 case with a 1541 drive mechanism. | | | Although the 1570 was compatible with the Commodore 64, the C64 wasn't capable of taking advantage of the drive's higher-speed operation, and when used with the C64 it was little more than a pricier 1541. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Commodore International |
| | Commodore soon had a profitable calculator line, and were one of the more common brands in the early 1970s, producing both ordinary as well as scientific/programmable calculators. | | | Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, an electronics company who was a major player in the 1980s home computer field. | | | Commodore 1540 - 5¼" Floppy disk drive for use with Commodore VIC-20. |
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| | Commodore 65 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The C65 was an improved version of the Commodore 64, and it was meant to be backwards-compatible with the older computer, while still providing a number of advanced features close to that of the Amiga. | | | The Commodore 65 (also known as the C64DX, not to be confused with the Commodore DX-64 portable unit) was a prototype computer created by Fred Bowen and others at Commodore Business Machines (CBM) (part of Commodore International) in 1990–91. | | | 128 KB RAM, expandable to 8 MB using a RAM expansion port similar to that of the Commodore Amiga 500 |
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| | A disk drive for TED |
| | An example of the TED's I/O features being put to use is the European-built Commodore 1551 disk drive. | | | The release of the 264 series computers in 1984 (the Commodore 116, 16, Plus/4, etc) brought with it the new TED chip. | | | Like all Commodore disk drives, the 1551 is a smart device, containing it's own processor and memory. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Commodore 1551 |
| | The Commodore 1551 was a floppy disk drive for the Commodore Plus/4 home computer. | | | The DOS limited the number of files per disk to 144 regardless of the number of free blocks on the disk because the directory was of a fixed size, and the file system did not allow for subdirectories. | | | In Europe, the Plus/4 was much more successful, but because tape drives were the most popular storage device in Europe in the 1980s, the 1551 was not very popular in Europe either. |
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| | Commodore |
| | Commodore 1571 The Commodore 1571 was arguably 1570). | | | Commodore 1581 The Commodore 1581 is a 3½ inch double sided Bulletin board system operators and power users. | | | Commodore SX-64 The Commodore SX-64, also known as the Executive 64, was a portable, briefcase/suitcase-size "luggable... |
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| | Commodore 16 article - Commodore 16 home computer Commodore 6502 1984 VIC-20 Timex Corporation Mattel - What-Means.com |
| | The Commodore 16 was a home computer made by Commodore with a 6502-compatible 7501 CPU, released in 1984. | | | Since the problem the C16 was designed to solve disappeared before its release, and given the lack of commercial software for the machine, the C16 sold poorly in the United States, where it was quickly discontinued and the C64 repositioned as the entry-level machine. | | | Commodore sold a C16 family-specific cassette player (the Commodore 1531) and joysticks, but third-party converters to allow the use of the abundant, and hence much less expensive, VIC/C64-type units soon appeared. |
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| | Commodore International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Commodore brought this new 16-bit computer design (known initially as the Lorraine, later dubbed the Amiga 1000) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $1295. | | | Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, a West Chester, Pennsylvania based electronics company who was a vital player in the personal computer field. | | | From its 1977 debut, Commodore would be a computer company. |
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| | Commodore 1541 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Commodore 1541 (originally called VIC-1541), made by Commodore Int'l, was the best-known floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64 home computer. | | | In 1986, Commodore released the 1541C, a revised version that offered quieter and slightly more reliable operation and a light beige case matching the color scheme of the Commodore 64C. | | | Commodore 1541-II The 1541's numerous shortcomings opened a market for a number of third-party clones of the disk drive, a situation that continued for the lifetime of the C64. |
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| | Commodore BASIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Commodore took the source code of the flat-fee BASIC and developed it further internally for all their home computers. | | | Commodore BASIC is the dialect of BASIC used in Commodore International's 8-bit home computer line, stretching from the PET of 1977 to the C128 of 1985. | | | BASIC 8 (C128; floppy disk and optional internal ROM chip) (Walrusoft) |
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| | Commodore PET - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) was a home-/personal computer produced by Commodore starting in the late 1970s. | | | Although it was no top seller outside the Canadian, US, and UK educational markets, it was Commodore's first full-featured computer and would form the basis for their future success. | | | Commodore responded by looking for a chip set of their own they could purchase outright, and quickly found MOS Technology, Inc. who were bringing their 6502 microprocessor design to market. |
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| | Commodore computer history and repair information |
| | Commodore acquired or bought out the Amiga technology from its original developers and began developing and marketing Amiga computers during the mid 1980's. | | | Commodore also continued to work behind the scenes to develop new computer models. | | | Commodore compatible floppy drives made by other manufacturers also emerged, but they were independently developed (for the most part) due to the fact that the Commodore 64 and 128 drives were "intelligent peripherals" possessing chips that Commodore had decided not to license or supply to its competitors. |
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| | Commodore International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Commodore brought this new 16-bit computer design (known initially as the Lorraine, later dubbed the Amiga 1000) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $1295. | | | Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, a West Chester, Pennsylvania based electronics company who was a vital player in the personal computer field. | | | From its 1977 debut, Commodore would be a computer company. |
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| | Commodore 1540 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Commodore DOS on-board in ROM &; contrary to almost all other home computer systems of the time, where the DOS was loaded from a boot floppy¹ and was executed on the computer's CPU. | | | floppy disk drive for the Commodore VIC-20 home computer. | | | Because of the low price of both the VIC-20 and the 1540, this combination was the first computer with a disk drive to be offered on the US market for under $1,000, although the combination of the |
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| | Science Fair Projects - Commodore REU |
| | The REUs came with software to utilize the extra memory as a RAM disk, but the RAM disk's compatibility with commercial software was spotty, as some commercial software relied heavily on various quirks of the Commodore 1541 floppy drive. | | | Like other add-on products from Commodore International, their relatively small installed base relative to the huge installed base of the C64 made software developers hesitant to invest much time and effort in supporting it, and the lack of commercial support kept sales lower than they otherwise might have been. | | | Commodore's RAM Expansion Unit (REU) range of external RAM add-ons for their home computers was announced at the same time as the Commodore 128. |
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| | Commodore 64 games and software and Commodore 128 and 64 computer products |
| | New and Used Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 computers, Commodore software, disk drives, monitors, printers, cables, ribbons, games, educational software, graphics, word processing, books, applications, programming tools, modems, public domain and shareware programs, chips and parts etc. | | | This is the disk drive which was designed to go with the Commodore 128 computer but it will also work on most other Commodore 8 bit computers including the Commodore 64. | | | Commodore 64/128 compatible direct connect 300 baud modems. |
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| | Commodore 64 - definition of Commodore 64 in Encyclopedia |
| | Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64) was a popular home computer of the 1980s. | | | Commodore was determined not to repeat the same mistake, and made sure that the eventual successors to the C64—the Commodore 128 and 128D computers (1985)—were as good as, and were fully compatible with the original. | | | Commodore probably made this mistake because in that era hardware was still considered more significant than software, and it was not understood that in the future hardware would become a commodity item and that software would rule as the most important selling point. |
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| | Commodore Plus/4 |
| | The Commodore Plus/4 was a home computer released by Commodore International in 1984 and intended to replace the Commodore 64 as its flagship computer. | | | Commodore may not have believed this to be a problem, as the successful C64 was incompatible with most VIC-20 software – but the C64 had developed a large software library by 1984, and while the C64 was a significant upgrade to the VIC-20 in almost every way, the Plus/4 was not. | | | Commodore president Jack Tramiel wanted a new computer line that would use fewer chips and at the same time address some of the user complaints about the VIC and C64. |
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| | Microsoft BASIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | After the initial success of Altair BASIC, Microsoft BASIC became the basis for a lucrative software licensing business, being ported to the majority of the numerous home and personal computers of the 1970s and especially the 1980s, and extended along the way. | | | It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first BASIC (and indeed the first programming language) available for the MITS Altair 8800 hobbyist microcomputer. | | | The Altair BASIC interpreter was developed by Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates with help from Monte Davidoff, using a self made Intel 8080 software simulator running on a minicomputer. |
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| | Commodore International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Commodore brought this new 16-bit computer design (known initially as the Lorraine, later dubbed the Amiga 1000) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $1295. | | | Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, a West Chester, Pennsylvania based electronics company who was a vital player in the personal computer field. | | | From its 1977 debut, Commodore would be a computer company. |
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| | Commodore International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, a West Chester, Pennsylvania based electronics company who was a vital player in the home/personal computer field in the 1980s. | | | Commodore developed and marketed the world's best-selling desktop computer, the Commodore 64 (1982). | | | Commodore brought this new 16-bit computer design (known initially as the Lorraine, later dubbed the Amiga 1000) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $1295. |
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| | Commodore 1541 |
| | The Commodore 1541 (originally called VIC-1541) was the best-known floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64 home computer. | | | In 1986, Commodore released the 1541C, a revised version that offered quieter and slightly more reliable operation and a light beige case, which matched the color scheme of the Commodore 64C. | | | The Commodore 1570 was an upgraded 1541 for use with the Commodore 128, available in Europe. |
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| | Commodore computer history and repair information |
| | The Commodore 64 was actually part of the evolution of computers marketed by CBM (Commodore Business Machines) which had previously proliferated the CBM and PET business computers into business and academic settings and who had then subsequently developed the VIC-20 computer which was the predecessor to the Commodore 64. | | | The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit computer that uses Commodore DOS instead of MS Dos or Windows. | | | Commodore compatible floppy drives made by other manufacturers also emerged, but they were independently developed (for the most part) due to the fact that the Commodore 64 and 128 drives were "intelligent peripherals" possessing chips that Commodore had decided not to license or supply to its competitors. |
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| | Commodore International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, a West Chester, Pennsylvania based electronics company who was a vital player in the personal computer field. | | | In September 1997, the Commodore brand name was acquired by Dutch computer maker Tulip Computers NV. | | | Commodore UK stayed in business by selling old inventory and making computer speakers and some other types of computer peripherals. |
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| | Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Commodore 64 - |
| | The graphics chip, VIC-II[?], featured 16 colors, eight sprites, scrolling[?] capabilities etc. Although not commonly supplied with the machine, floppy disk drives of the 3.5 inch (the Commodore 1581) and 5.25 inch (the Commodore 1541 and Commodore 1571) variety were available. | | | The Commodore 64 was a popular home computer of the 1980s. | | | The C64 was often used with tape drives in Europe, although in the United States the C64 popularized the use of floppy drives, as it was the first computer that made them affordable. |
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