commodore

Given that is was released in 1980, I find it likely that it outsold Apple and the chart is hiding the actual Commodore number.

Could probably emulate lots of things, it's a hell of a lot faster than a Commodore 64.

Especially since Commodore had to wait on Motorola chips that Apple didn't want before it could even order them.

To be fair Commodore and Atari were still making their own computers (Amiga/ST) in the early nineties.

The Commodore 64 wasn't released until August 1982 and the PC did take a while to beat it in marketshare.

For a 41 year old man like me and many of my generation the influence of Commodore was life altering.

Technically, Atari and Commodore survived to the 90's but both were gone by the mid 90's.

The introduction of the workbench desktop was jaw dropping compared to the relatively clunky Commodore Basic interface of the older machines.

Compare that to the difference between 2000 and 1990, when the Commodore 64 and dot matrix printers still had some market share.

I think I know my shit, I'm 43 and have been basically coding since I was 12 on a Commodore PET...

Briefly, in 1981, Apple led on revenue.[1] (XLS file of sales data.) The Commodore 64 and the Atari 400 were much cheaper machines than the Apple II.

It's been quite a time since I recall anyone discussing commodore vs.

All that stuff about "commodore 64" and "garage startup" sounds a bit like a smokescreen.

Commodore and Atari had higher market share numbers than Apple at the time of the PC launch.

The VIC-20 was Commodore's monster seller before that (1st computer to hit 1 million unit sales).

My first computer was a Commodore, but I wish I'd been a programmer in the 80s rather than a kid.