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Before Commodore became a billion-dollar computer empire, it began with Jack Tramiel — a Holocaust survivor, typewriter repairman, and ruthless businessman who believed computers should be “for the masses, not the classes.”
This is the story of how Commodore rose from a small repair business into the company behind the legendary Commodore 64, the best-selling single computer model in history. But just as Commodore reached the top, its founder was pushed out, its vision collapsed, and one of the most important computer companies of the 1980s threw away its future.
From typewriters to calculators, from the PET to the VIC-20 and Commodore 64, this is the rise and fall of the company that helped put computers in the living room.
This is the story of how Commodore rose from a small repair business into the company behind the legendary Commodore 64, the best-selling single computer model in history. But just as Commodore reached the top, its founder was pushed out, its vision collapsed, and one of the most important computer companies of the 1980s threw away its future.
From typewriters to calculators, from the PET to the VIC-20 and Commodore 64, this is the rise and fall of the company that helped put computers in the living room.
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