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Commodore VIC-20, 64, 64C, 128, and 128D Shared the following:
- IEC Serial Bus
- the IEC Serial Port/Bus is the only thing that the VIC, 64 and 128 models shared with the 116, 264 and the Plus/4
- could be considered the predessor to USB, allowed daisy chaining floppy drives, printers, and all sorts of other accessories
- Cassette port, for storing programs and data on cassette tapes.
- Cartridge port for accessories, applications and games
Introduced June 1980
Released January 1981
Produced until 1984
- Original Price: $299.00
- First inexpensive color computer
- Displays 22 Characters of Text per line
- Displayed up to 8 colors
Top 100 inventions of the last century (1983)
Commodore 64 is in the Guiness Book of World Records.
Indroduced January 1982
Released September 1982
Produced until 1985
- Original Price: $595.00
- 64K of RAM
- Displays 40 Characters of Text per line
- Displays up to 16 colors
- Featured the SID chip for sound
- Featured the VIC-II chip for video
- Supported most if not all peripherals from the Vic-20
- No other company has sold more units than the Commodore 64
Indroduced
Released
Produced until Commodore went Bankrupt (possibly early 1990's)
- Original Price:
- 64K of RAM
- Displays 40 Characters of Text per line
- Displays up to 16 colors
- Featured SID/Vic-II just like "breadbin"
- CR version of original Breadbin 64
Indroduced June 1984
Released 1984
Produced until 1985
- Featured four built in programs
- Marketed towards Business
- Original Price: $300.00 (approximately)
- Displays 40 Characters of Text per line
- 128 Color Palette
- Uses TED chip for Video and Sound
- Couldn't do sprites like the Commodore 64
- More powerful than Commodore 64
- Was not compatible with almost all Vic and 64 peripherals
- Used different Joystick ports
- Used a different cassette port
- Used the same IEC serial port for Floppy Drive
- Wasn't compatible with most c64 Software, the exception was a small amount of extremely BASIC programs.
- Was nicknamed the "minus 64"
- By 1986 liquidated at $79.00 each
Indroduced January 1985
Released 1985 (approximately)
Produced until
- Original Price: $299.95 (approximately)
- needs more research on price
- Three computers in one
- Commodore 64
- Commodore 128
- CP/M
- Displays 40 Characters of Text per line in C64 Mode
- Displays 80 Characters of Text per line in C128 Mode
- Displays up to 16 colors
- Uses most if not all the peripherals produced for the Commodore 64
Indroduced
Released
Produced until
- Original Price: $
- Mostly the same as 128, had built in 1571 5.25" 360K floppy drive
- Keyboard is external to the metal desktop case
Indroduced July 23, 1985
Released September 1985
Produced until
- 256k Amiga Chip RAM, additional 256k could be added with dedicated cartridge upgrade
- 12 bit palette, displays up to 4096 colors
- Amiga OS, GUI interface, multi-tasking
- Shipped with AmigaBASIC by Microsoft
Indroduced
Released March 1987
Produced until 1990
- Originally designed in Germany, based on the Amiga 1000
- could display 4096 colors
- Amiga OS, GUI interface, multi-tasking
- shipped with a 880K 3.5" floppy drive
- RAM varied with versions
