The Commodore 64 is officially back. Just months after signing paperwork to acquire the original brand and assets, Commodore 64 Ultimates are slowly rolling off the assembly line, and some units may ...

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 ...

Personal computers started to become a normal household item by the 1980s, with companies like Apple, Atari, IBM, and others ...

The Commodore 64 has, by modern standards, the interesting power requirement of needing both 5 VDC and 9 VAC. Traditionally, one would use an iron-core transformer to step-down the wall current ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...