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In January 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa., a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd., began designing a graphics chip and a sound chip to sell to whoever wanted to make “the world’s best video game.” In January 1982, a home computer incorporating those chips was introduced at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev. By using in-house integrated-circuit-fabrication facilities for prototyping, the engineers had cut the design tim
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If you type “WAIT6502,1” into a Commodore PET with BASIC V2 (1979), it will show the string “MICROSOFT!” at the top left corner of the screen. Legend has it Bill Gates himself inserted this easter egg “after he had had an argument with Commodore founder Jack Tramiel”, “just in case Commodore ever tried to claim that the code wasn’t from Microsoft”. In this episode of “Computer Archeology“, we will not only examine this story, but also track down the history of Microsoft BASIC on various compute
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Choose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. Correct Answer: Commodore 64 What was Comdex before it was shut down in the early 2000s? The Commodore 64 took CES 1982 by storm, promising a system that was considerably more powerful than anything offered by competitors while costing only $595. This price reportedly shocked Atari employees visiting Commodore's booth and was made possible by the company's strategic vertical integration. Commodore had recently acquired MOS Technolog
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The Amiga 600 was one of the last Amigas, and it became a symbol of everything wrong with Commodore and the product line. Retro enthusiasts like it today because of its small size, so it’s the perfect retro Amiga for today. But it couldn’t have been much more wrong for the time it was introduced, March 11-18, 1992 at the CeBit show. The Amiga 600 was a cost-reduced Amiga for home use, similar in size and appearance to a Commodore 64. But internally it wasn’t much more than a repackaged Amiga 10
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