Commodore - the famous bread box and his successors

Commodore is the name of a computer manufacturer, who is gone into insolvency. The initial time the computer could only education to make computer or mainframe. As time evolved, however, four companies, the computers only for office and later developed for home customers. One such firm was Commodore International, which has won C64 especially known for her home computer.

This also "bread box" called calculator was affordable for many people and in many cases the first contact with a computer. The computer had skin 64kB memory, a current value for the time unimaginably small and he was ready immediately after power up. Compared to other providers of these computers but had some technical innovations: he had the ability to display colors and music output. The competing products were done only after some time be able to this as well. Thus began the C64 by the home user market. You do not even need a monitor, but it reached the normal TV that spent the images and sounds of the C64. This calculator offered to play as the first opportunity computer games.

As he had a storage capability Kasettenlaufwerk called tape drive or alternatively a floppy disk drive with the size 5 ¼ inches. As a further development, the company produced the 128th C This computer was not as popular as its predecessor. After these two computer models the company produced under the name of other Amiga home computer, which had similar success. Especially the Amiga is to call 1000, which was inferior to its direct competitor, the Atari. As Commodore has missed the jump in the IBM-compatible PC range, the company had to register in 1994 for bankruptcy.

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