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Still working on photos from our trip to Colorado. This is a big view of the Commodore Mine that is on the Bachelor Historical Loop Tour in Creede, Colorado.
121005-N-AI329-006 Columbia, Md. (October 5, 2012 ) MUC Luis Hernandez performs on tenor saxophone during a concert at Howard County Community College in Columbia, Md. The Commodores are the Navy's premier jazz ensemble. (U.S. Navy photo by Musician First Class Jeremy Buckler/Released)
The Commodore 64, commonly called C64, C=64 (after the graphic logo on the case) or occasionally CBM 64 (for Commodore Business Machines), or VIC-64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International.
Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$ 595. Preceded by the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore PET, the C64 took its name from its 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM, and had favorable sound and graphical specifications when compared to contemporary systems such as the Apple II, at a price that was well below the circa US$ 1200 demanded by Apple.
During the C64's lifetime, sales totalled between 12.5 and 17 million units, making it the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. For a substantial period (1983–1986), the C64 dominated the market with between 30% and 40% share and 2 million units sold per year, outselling the IBM PC compatibles, Apple Inc. computers, and Atari 8-bit family computers.
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In January 1981, MOS Technology, Inc., Commodore's integrated circuit design subsidiary, initiated a project to design the graphic and audio chips for a next generation video game console. Design work for the chips, named MOS Technology VIC-II (graphics) and MOS Technology SID (audio), was completed in November 1981.
Commodore then began a game console project that would use the new chips—called the Ultimax or alternatively the Commodore MAX Machine, engineered by Yash Terakura from Commodore Japan. This project was eventually cancelled after just a few machines were manufactured for the Japanese market.
At the same time, Robert "Bob" Russell (system programmer and architect on the VIC-20) and Robert "Bob" Yannes (engineer of the SID) were critical of the current product line-up at Commodore, which was a continuation of the Commodore PET line aimed at business users. With the support of Al Charpentier (engineer of the VIC-II) and Charles Winterble (manager of MOS Technology), they proposed to Commodore CEO Jack Tramiel a true low-cost sequel to the VIC-20. Tramiel dictated that the machine should have 64 kB of random-access memory (RAM). Although 64 kB of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cost over US$100 at the time, he knew that DRAM prices were falling, and would drop to an acceptable level before full production was reached. In November, Tramiel set a deadline for the first weekend of January, to coincide with the 1982 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
The product was code named the VIC-40 as the successor to the popular VIC-20. The team that constructed it consisted of Bob Russell, Bob Yannes and David A. Ziembicki. The design, prototypes and some sample software was finished in time for the show, after the team had worked tirelessly over both Thanksgiving and Christmas weekends.
The machine incorporated Commodore BASIC 2.0 in ROM. BASIC also served as the user interface shell and was available immediately on startup at the READY. prompt.
When the product was to be presented, the VIC-40 product was renamed C64 to fit the then-current Commodore business products lineup which contained the P128 and the B256, both named by a letter and their respective total memory size (in KBytes).
The C64 made an impressive debut at the January 1982 Winter Consumer Electronics Show, as recalled by Production Engineer David A. Ziembicki: "All we saw at our booth were Atari people with their mouths dropping open, saying, 'How can you do that for $595?'" The answer, as it turned out, was vertical integration; thanks to Commodore's ownership of MOS Technology's semiconductor fabrication facilities, each C64 had an estimated production cost of only US$135.
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120605-N-AI329-062 WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 5, 2012) MUC Luis Hernandez solos on tenor saxophone during a Commodores concert at the Navy Memorial in downtown Washington, D.C. The Commodores are the Navy's premier jazz ensemble.(U.S. Navy Photo by MU1 Jeremy Buckler/Released)
Fabian Coulthard/david Besnard Holden Commodore finished 23rd at the 2012 Supercheap Autos Bathurst 1000.
2001 Holden Commodore V8.
I know it is a GM car but not sure why it has Chevrolet badges... Chevrolet Omega body-kit?
It has a 5.7-litre Chevrolet-sourced Gen III V8 engine (302 bhp) though.
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Welcome to the fifth of the ongoing series of exclusive photos here at Armchair Arcade from my private collection, the Commodore SX-64 Executive Computer from 1984.
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Without further ado, here are some neat facts about this week's photo (feedback welcome!):
With the Commodore 64 (C-64) beginning to gain momentum after its release in 1982 due to agressive pricing, highly capable graphics and sound, and mass market appeal, Commodore began looking for ways to expand the platform. One of these was the Commodore 128 series of backwards compatible systems that increased the power of the original 8-bit platform, while another was a late life game-centric system called the Commodore 64GS that never saw release in the US. Besides the classic breadbox design of the original C-64, Commodore also released a repackaging with a sleeker case called the C-64c. Perhaps the most conceptually intriguing of these original C-64 offshoots though was the transportable system shown in the photo, the SX-64 Executive Computer, released in early 1984 less than two years after the original breadbox design. While this transportable system could not run on batteries, it was otherwise self-contained, requiring just a power cord and AC outlet. As seen in the photo, and truly important to a system such as the C-64, the built-in monitor is color, making this one of the first ever transportables with a color screen.
With its built-in 5.25" disk drive and cartridge port, the SX-64 was able to run all but cassette-based software. While the system had most of the C-64's standard ports, including a display output, it lacked a cassette interface. Unlike in Europe, the US quickly moved away from the cassette format so this was not a serious omission here, but the fact that the SX-64 was marketed as a business system was. While the C-64 platform had a huge range of productivity software, it was hardly an ideal business system, particularly with its slow disk drives. Nevertheless, taken out of its original marketing plan and into today's world of collectibles, the system is highly sought after as an easily transportable complete C-64. Add a standard Atari joystick or two as shown in the photo, and you're pretty much good to go with the vast majority of software.
While the system is highly collectible and often sells for well north of $100, a latch or two is often broken and sometimes the keyboard cable is missing. My particular system shown here is fairly pristine, save for some minor scratching on the plexiglass outer covering of the monitor and the fact that some keyboard keys require a bit of effort to press and suffer "bounce", i.e., a single press will often generate a few extra characters. I have another SX-64 that I'll need to test to see if I can cobble together a 100% perfect system, but again, if you're going to collect this system, keep in mind the keyboard can be an issue and finding a replacement is very difficult. Actually, what you will often see are the keyboards without the cable, so strike when you can in the various scenarios.
The screen itself is very sharp and the C-64's fine graphics pop when shrunk on that screen. Sound is nice and clear and just like the various monitor settings is fully adjustable with dials to the right of the disk drive. Unlike stand-alone 1541 disk drives, the way the drive is packed in, noise is greatly reduced. All-in-all, it's a very quiet, very efficient system.
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Commodore's classic systems and many others are mentioned in my upcoming book, along with exhaustive looks at many other systems. Be sure to keep visiting Armchair Arcade for ongoing coverage as well. See you next time!
Stairs and a retaining wall are practically all that remain of The Commodore Hotel in Swan Lake, NY.
For 1980 this turbo six Commodore was offered in the aftermarket. It says a maximum of 85 will be built per month. I have no idea if they came close to this goal.
The artwork here, depicting Commodore Andrew Hull Foote, is found among the letters written during the American Civil War by my great-great grandfather, Andrew Jackson Adrain, to his loved ones at home.
My great-great grandfather:
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The Commodore Hotel was built in 1936 in the Streamline Moderne style. The style is evident by the rows of recessed windows with continuous eyebrows on both street facades.
The hotel has a covered porch that wraps around the corner. Also taking advantage of the corner are the stacked curving windows with eyebrows.
The hotel's nautical motifs are quite playful with graduated circular bosses that give the impression of rising bubbles. The nautical theme continues with portholes on the ground level.
The village womanizer, with his brand new Commodore and a matching shirt, picks up his latest girlfriend at the railway station.
Output from the commodore pet to an external monitor via the RGBtoHDMI board that is Raspberry PI based. texelec.com/product/rgbtohdmi-ttl/
An ancient, but functional, Commodore CBM 8032. The first computer I had ever used was one of these back in 1981. Learned Waterloo Basic (a structured Basic) on it. Picked this one up locally many years ago but it just sat around collecting dust and taking up space. Gave it away to a "collector" who's now trying to sell it for $2400, good luck with that, but at least maybe if someone thinks it has that kind of value, it won't end up in a land fill or recycled. Picture was taken the morning I gave it away. The keyboard wasn't fully working so I was trying to type something timely - Canada had just won it's first home gold medal in the men's moguls.