The Commodore 64
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In the mid-sixties Commodore shifted its focus from producing typewriters to producing calculators, a move made purely for financial considerations, but which in hindsight seems to evoke the same tension between text and numbers, between poetics and algorithms that underwrites the aesthetic and procedural dimensions of 10 PRINT. Caught in a price war with Texas Instruments and Japanese manufacturers in the seventies, Tramiel sought the cheapest calculator components he could find, eventually buying parts from MOS Technology, a semiconductor company comprised of many former Motorola engineers (Bagnall 55). | In the mid-sixties Commodore shifted its focus from producing typewriters to producing calculators, a move made purely for financial considerations, but which in hindsight seems to evoke the same tension between text and numbers, between poetics and algorithms that underwrites the aesthetic and procedural dimensions of 10 PRINT. Caught in a price war with Texas Instruments and Japanese manufacturers in the seventies, Tramiel sought the cheapest calculator components he could find, eventually buying parts from MOS Technology, a semiconductor company comprised of many former Motorola engineers (Bagnall 55). | ||
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| − | Bagnall, Brian. ''Commodore: A Company on the Edge''. Winnipeg: Variant Press, 2010. | ||
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