Commodore International Historical Society

When Microsoft open sourced the 6502 BASIC source last September, one sentence in the announcement caught my attention and then would not let go of it.

The Quantum Link Commodore Forums archive is now online. 30 original transcripts of the live online conferences that Commodore engineers and community figures held with Q-Link subscribers between 1985 and 1987, covering the Amiga, C128, C64, GEOS, the Mid…

This is a collection of black and white photos taken of Commodore’s booth at the June, 1981 Summer CES in Chicago, IL.

The Commodore Programmable Thermostat One of the lesser-known, non-computer items that Commodore put to market was a programmable thermostat, released by Commodore’s consumer products division.

1984 International Winter Consumer Electronics Show The 1984 International Winter Consumer Electronics Show was held from January 7 – January 10 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

I recently had the great honor of doing a joint presentation with Leonard Tramiel at VCF West in Mountain View, California on August 5, 2023.

I was invited to do a presentation at the 2023 VCF East in Wall, NJ on April 15, 2023.

The Commodore 8010 acoustic coupler modem appears to have been released around 1980, based on the hand written dates on the PCB of the device I have.

Drawing from a number of sources including Brian Bagnall’s Commodore: A Company on the Edge, internal documents provided by Michael Tomczyk, various discussions in the Commodore International Historical Society Facebook group, and a litany of photos taken…

Commodore historians are perhaps fortunate that in the earliest years of the company, Commodore ran somewhat afoul of the authorities due to their relationship with the Atlantic Acceptance Corporation.