Commodore was once the dominant force in home computing. Its collapse in the '90s remains one of tech history's more dramatic ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1977, Commodore introduced the PET ...

Although the PET is most likely the more well-known of Commodore’s early computer systems, the KIM-1 (Keyboard Input Monitor) single board computer was launched a year prior, in 1976. It featured not ...

If you’ve ever used a home computer from the late 1970s or early 1980s, you’ll no doubt be familiar with the slow speed of their user interfaces. Even listing the contents of a BASIC program from RAM ...

Before the Commodore 64 or Apple II, there was the Commodore PET 8032, the first personal computer available to the general public. It had a 1 MHz processor, support for up to 8KB of RAM, and a ...

An awesome new Raspberry Pi Commodore PET Mini computer has been created by Lorenzo ‘Tin Cat’ Herrera using a 3D printer designed based on the iconic Commodore PET model 8032 launched back in 1977.

Called the PET De Lux, Love Hultèn says it’s a one-of-a-kind model complete with original accents like the dainty keyboard and datasette (Commodore’s storage device that looks like a mini cassette ...