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Commodore Personal Computers Commodore Personal Computers (:commodore COMPUTER Commodore International ... Commodore International was In the decade that followed, founded in 1958, primarily as a Commodore rapidly became a marketing organization for electro­ leader in microelectronics by mechanic al office equipment. offering outstanding value in many However, in 1970, it took on a new product areas. We grew to become dimension. Commodore began to the world's No. 1 manufacturer of manufacture high quality pocket components for electronic watches, calculators and to invest heavily introduced the world's first inte­ in new technology. grated microcomputer system and began to develop and manufacture electronic energy conservation products. Cover Photo: Commodore engineer designs a complex semiconductor chip. Commodore is the only personal computer manufacturer that makes its own microprocessors. 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VIC, PET®, and CBM™ (Commodore Educational and Business Machine) computers, which are Scientific Computers Commodore's BASIC 4.0, available as produced by Commodore's Computer soon as the computer is turned on, is a Systems Division, are used throughout These completely self-contained, low­ high-level language with 9-digit floating the world in virtually every walk of life cost, desk-top computers are used pri­ point arithmetic. ... business, education, government, marily in educational and scientific BASIC 4.0 also provides specialized engineering, process control, science, applications. They combine keyboard, commands for disk operations and access research, and entertainment. display and processor in one unit. Up to the IEEE-488 interface. With this to 15 peripherals such as printers and tremendous capability, your applications Whether your application is personal or disk drives, as well as instruments and that require large computations and professional, small business or major process control devices, may be connected sophisticated data manipulation are corporation, Commodore systems can via the built-in IEEE-488 interface. As handled with ease. meet your needs. your needs expand, so can your micro­ computer system. And you don't need previous computer experience to have Commodore com­ The PET's keyboard spans a myriad of puters working for you. applications. For business users, the upper and lower case characters and numeric CBM 8000 Series - keypad offer flexible and quick data Business Computers VIC20- entry. For scientific or programming applications the keyboard also provides Personal Computer the full PET graphic character set. The Commodore CBM 8000 computer systems are integrated, cost-effective Commodore's VIC 20 (the friendly Full screen editing capabilities, combined systems that improve your business or computer) is the world's first full-featured with complete cursor control, are professional operation. They are easy­ expandable color computer priced at little standard. to-use tools to manage information the more than a video game. The VIC 20 way you want to ... when you want to. offers many diverse features giving first­ The crisp, easy-to-read, 12-inch green time computer users and experts alike a phosphor display is organized in 25 lines CBM business systems help manage cash wide range of capabilities and options. of 40 characters and is included in the flow, control inventory, process words, base price. and make your business more profitable. The VIC 20 personal computer features All at a cost that is surprisingly affordable. - color, sound, programmable function keys, The PET model 4016 offers 16K bytes of CBM price-performance is one of the SK bytes of memory expandable to 32K, RAM memory-the PET model 4032 main reasons Commodore is Number built-in BASIC, full-size typewriter contains 32K RAM. However, all memory One outside the U.S. keyboard, external expansion ports, is available to the user; none is needed for 22-character by 23-line display, high the operating system or languages as in The 8000 series offers an expanded resolution graphics, graphic character set, some other systems. Peripherals don't wide-screen display to show up to 80- joystick/paddle/lightpen interface and require any special "add-on" interfacing characters of information per line. Text external plug-in memory and program or operating system either. Their built-in editing and report formatting are faster cartridges. memory and microprocessor provides and easier with the wider display. Carried over from the CBM 4000 series are the same easy-to-read green phosphor display, typewriter-style keyboard with numeric keypad, full-screen editing capa­ bilities, and high-level BASIC 4.0. The standard CBM model 8032 contains An extensive software package for the 32K bytes of RAM and 18K ROM. SuperPET has been developed by Again, no memory is dedicated when Waterloo Computing Systems Limited. peripherals are ~dded, so the user can The SuperPET currently supports take full advantage of all available storage. numerous interpretative languages, including Waterloo microBASIC, micro­ The CBM Memory Expansion Board Pascal, microFORTRAN, and microAPL. adds 64K bytes of RAM to the CBM 8032, providing a total of 96K bytes The Waterloo microEDITOR and disk­ of RAM. With this expanded memory, oriented Assembler and Linker programs applications that require large amounts of are also included to speed program devel­ machine data storage can be implemented. opment. Structured programming concepts are incorporated in all the Waterloo These professional features make the language interpreters and the Assembler. CBM 8000 series computers ideally suited for the computing needs of the business In addition, the SuperPET operates in a and professional marketplace. standard CBM 8032 mode so that all programs designed for the 8032 will operate without modification. • SuperPET 9000 Series­ Advanced Computer The SuperPET is a new and exciting generation jump in microcomputers, based on the popular CBM 8032 system. For the price of a microcomputer, the SuperPET offers features and languages normally found only on large mainframe systems. A pseudo 16 bit 6809 based system with 36K ROM, 96K user RAM and 2K screen RAM (134K total), the SuperPET supports all current CBM peripherals except the C2N cassette recorder. A powerful communication facility is in­ cluded which supports a standard RS232 C interface, with speeds up to 9600 baud. Applications developed on the SuperPET can be up-loaded to a mainframe system, and executed without modification. The SuperPET can also access the virtually unlimited disk storage of the mainframe system. Commodore Disk Units Commodore Disk Units CBM 2031 Single Disk Drive CBM 8050 Dual Disk Drive Commodore's "intelligent" disk units The low-cost, high-capacity CBM 2031 The CBM 8050 Dual Disk Drive is an provide an easy way to load application Single Disk Drive provides over 170K enhanced version of the CBM 4040 disk programs and store data. The advantage bytes of storage on a single 5¼-inch drive. The CBM 8050 has all the features of floppy disk storage is low cost per floppy diskette. Built-in software of the CBM 4040, and provides more character stored and fast access to large accommodates data handling, allowing powerful software capabilities, as well as amounts of information. users to concentrate on more important one million characters of on-line storage tasks. Programs and data on 2031 diskettes capacity. Relative record ( random access) Plus, by employing state-of-the-art are upward compatible with the larger files and automatic diskette initialization technology, Commodore offers greater CBM 4040 unit. are standard. The CBM 8050 also offers storage capacity than normal industry improved error recovery and the ability standards. to append sequential files. CBM 4040 Dual Disk Drive The CBM 4040 Dual Disk Drive can CBM 8250 Dual Disk Drive store a total of 340K bytes of information on two drives. Built-in microprocessor­ The CBM 8250 provides all the features controlled software provides powerful of the CBM 8050 drive, plus an unprece­ data handling capabilities. dented 2.1 million characters of storage ... enough capability to meet your most The standard IEEE-488 interface allows demanding
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