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I know Commodore was big in Germany, which would make it a likely candidate, unless nationalistic pressure acted again? …

Commodore introduced some important products at conventions: PET at West Coast Computer Faire 1977, CBM 8032 at NCC 1980, C64 at CES 1982. What was the format of these? … the Atari ST was therefore just a 'walk up to the booth and take a look' affair, whereas the Amiga could get a more elaborate stage presentation of the kind Steve Jobs liked to arrange, and this is why Commodore …

According to Commodore: The Amiga Years, the reason the Commodore UNIX machine project in the early 80s used the Z8000 rather than the 68000 was an ongoing lawsuit with Motorola: With the Commodore-Motorola …

Commodore – The Inside Story, by David Pleasance, who was a manager in Commodore UK. …

Looking at the history of Commodore as discussed in e.g. http://www.filfre.net/2012/04/computers-for-the-masses/ they started off selling the PET as a business computer via dealers, then introduced the … This apparently led to many dealers feeling betrayed and abandoned and in turn abandoning Commodore, which was a problem a few years down the road when they introduced the more expensive Amiga and wanted …

Commodore made color monitors previously, but the ones used with machines like the 64 and Plus/4 only had to display 40 columns; some of the later PET models did 80, but that was monochrome. … Was the 1084 the first Commodore color monitor suitable for 80-column text? …

I'm trying to understand exactly why various chips were designed the way they were at different times, in the service of which I have a rather specific question: When did MOS Technology upgrade to 5µ …

Still useless for the C64, of course, but Commodore did (mistakenly, but still did) introduce the C16 as a spriteless lower-end machine. … But Commodore was a very cost-conscious company that was known to base designs on what kind of chip they currently had in surplus; if they didn't do that, is there a reason I am overlooking? …

The Commodore 1540 disk drive, along with its better-known successor the 1541, is a computer in its own right, with its own 6502 CPU. Why was it designed like that? …

Having spent the last however many decades believing Commodore Semiconductor Group was a simple rename of MOS Technology, I just watched a video – quite interesting in its own right – which casually remarks … Much has been said and written about the central importance of MOS Technology in the history of Commodore as a computer company; almost no one seems to have even heard of Frontier Manufacturing, and no …

Are there any easy example that show precision errors in Commodore BASIC, that would not be present if it would be based on decimal FP? … Some Commodore BASIC (MS-BASIC) equivalent to the 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3 test on IEEE 754. …

In the late seventies, Commodore sold the PET in Europe at a considerably higher price than in America; they could get away with this because there was less competition there. …

From 'A Company on the Edge', page 545: Commodore marketing scheduled the release of the TED computers for May 1984, but met with inevitable delays due to RAM shortages and problems with the supplier …

It is widely known that, while the Commodore 64 did indeed provide 64K of RAM for machine code programs, only 38K was usable from BASIC; this was because bank switching was needed to get at the rest, but … But the Commodore Plus/4 apparently provided 60K to BASIC programs. By the above reasoning, this should be impossible. How did it work? …

Game cartridges on the Commodore machines faded away later, but seemed to be quite popular at that time: http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/vic20/Cartlist-1.9m.txt Console manufacturers plan on eventually … I would be interested in either a number by Commodore alone, or by Commodore plus third parties. …