The Commodore 64
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| − | [INTRO TO CHAPTER] | + | The Commodore 64 has been hailed by ''Guiness World Records'' as the best-selling single model of computer ever. A study of Commodore 64 serial numbers has indicated that while people associated with Commodore have estimated, offically and unofficially, that 22 million or 17 million units were sold, the best estimate is that total sales were of 12.5 million Commodore 64s. Those sales are enough, though, are enough to earn the computer this distinction. |
| − | =The Commodore behind the Commodore 64= | + | = Commodore Business Machines = |
The roots of the Commodore 64 lie in the history of a Canadian company called Commodore, founded in Toronto in 1958 by Jack Tramiel. A survivor of the concentration camps in Poland, Tramiel was born Idek Tramielski, but changed his name after World War II, when he emigrated to the United States. After serving in Korea, Tramiel worked as a typewriter repair technician, eventually opening a repair company of his own, along with a business partner. Commodore was the company he and his partner formed next, and this company wouldn't repair typewriters, it would manufacture them (Bagnall xiii). Once again, the history of 10 PRINT is intertwined with earlier technologies, leaving the impression -- wholly inaccurate and technologically deterministic as it may be -- that personal computers were a natural progression from typewriters, which in turn emulated printing presses. | The roots of the Commodore 64 lie in the history of a Canadian company called Commodore, founded in Toronto in 1958 by Jack Tramiel. A survivor of the concentration camps in Poland, Tramiel was born Idek Tramielski, but changed his name after World War II, when he emigrated to the United States. After serving in Korea, Tramiel worked as a typewriter repair technician, eventually opening a repair company of his own, along with a business partner. Commodore was the company he and his partner formed next, and this company wouldn't repair typewriters, it would manufacture them (Bagnall xiii). Once again, the history of 10 PRINT is intertwined with earlier technologies, leaving the impression -- wholly inaccurate and technologically deterministic as it may be -- that personal computers were a natural progression from typewriters, which in turn emulated printing presses. | ||
