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In 1984 Commodore had no plans to produce a 16-bit computer. In 1985 they launched the most successful 16-bit computer ever. This is the story.
In 1959 or thereabouts, Jack Tramiel, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp who had immigrated from Europe to Canada, started Commodore. He made his money from repairing typewriters before becoming a manufacturer of them. Commodore also produced cash registers, and the first handheld calculator. These which were as expensive as some computers are now. In 1974 CBM bought a company called Micro Office Systems whose founders had worked with microchip manufacturers Motorola. They produced the chips needed for the calculators. In 1975 MOS Technologies invented the 6502 chip made for use in the calculators. Unfortunately they produced more than was necessary and were in financial trouble. Tramiel found a partner in businessman Irving Gould. They formulated the idea of using the surplus chips as the central processing unit for a whole new series of computers, including the world's first PC. Commodore had survived the 1970s 'Calculator Wars' poised for the next logical step.
The first ever personal computer was the Commodore PET, the Personal Electronic Transactor, which launched in 1977. Equipped with 4K of memory in its original 4000 incarnation, it was extremely slow. Then Commodore hit the consumer market with the VIC 20. It had 20k of RAM. But sold over a million units, the first computer to do that.
By 1984, the world of computers had moved on at an alarming rate. Not just the machines, the personal computer software had undergone generations of change. Space Invaders had come and gone, and with it a new market for game playing home computers had been born.
In 1984, Commodore's pride and joy was the two year old Commodore 64, an advanced 8-bit personal computer which is still enjoyed to this day. It has probably entered 14 to 15 million homes, schools, and businesses due to its capacity for both sound and graphics. A large part in the success of the C64 was due to smaller software houses who made the games affordable and raised the standard of C64 software. But chip manufacturers were now producing 16-bit chips around which computers of great speed with television-like colour displays could be built at a reasonable price. And Commodore was not yet in the race.
