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Commodore Business Machines and their products. Use more specific tags like [commodore-64] or [amiga] instead if appropriate.
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What was the 2nd best selling computer ever?
Commodore famously inflated their sales numbers, so while you'll find many resources claiming 25 or 30 million 64's sold, it appears the number is closer to 17 million. …
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Why was Paperback Writer renamed to Pocket Writer?
The name changed due to an Adam Osborne launched company, Paperback Software, also launching a product called Paperback Writer. They were HQed in Berkeley.
The earliest mentions I can find for Paperba …
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Commodore BASIC and binary floating point precision
Although not a direct answer to the question, I believe this is still worth pointing out:
Atari BASIC used BCD for its FP implementation. It was free from the sorts of errors being outlined above. I h …
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Why was IBM BASIC so Huge?
These too would be larger than their 8-bit cousins, and the editor, in particular, would normally be part of the underlying OS ROM, at least that was the case on the Atari and Commodore machines. …
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Did any devices use the Commodore 64 joystick ports as outputs or two-way communications ports?
The amazing little AtariLab was actually ported to the C64. This included pretty complete I/O, although it was mostly used for input. I'm not sure how many, if any, actually shipped.
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