The Commodore 64 was a revolutionary computer for its day and age. After four decades, though, it gets harder and harder to use these computers for anything more than educational or hobby electronics ...

The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be put to other purposes, though. Namely, operating as ...

Commodore, the name that helped usher in the PC revolution, is back. With a phone. For those of you too young to remember, Commodore was a hot company in the mid-1980s. It was a leader in personal ...

In the early 1980s—when the average cost of a personal computer was $2700, and the average American earned just over $14,500 per year—Jack Tramiel decided to do for computers what Henry Ford had done ...

[Photo: Commodore] I wasn’t born when the first Commodore 64 came out–in 1982–but I can still appreciate some good ol’ vintage computing. And apparently Commodore thinks other people can appreciate ...

The best selling computer of all time? It wasn’t the Macintosh. Or the Apple II. Or the IBM PC. It was the Commodore-64, the computer-disguised-as-a-keyboard that made its debut in 1982. According to ...

Editor’s Note 4/10/12: Jack Tramiel died on April 8 and will always be remembered as a computing industry pioneer and founder of Commodore. The Commodore 64 was one of the most popular PCs of all time ...