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Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo Continuing with the cheap theme, the Amstrad 'Colour Personal Computer' was launched by Sir Alan Sugar in 1984 as a rival to the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64. Here is the Commodore Personal Electronic Transactor (PET) all-in-one home PC, which... [03 Sep 2008]
Digital Services Developer Launches Handheld Media Player With Embedded System
White Paper Commodore International Corporation (CIC), based in the Netherlands, planned to develop a range of innovative digital media services. One, the Gravel-in-Pocket, aimed to meet the increasing demand for music and video streaming through handheld... [05 Sep 2007]
My first computer: The Acorn Electron
News We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. Here Will Sturgeon considers one of the rivals to the Sinclair ZX... [14 Jan 2005]
My first computer: The BBC Micro
News We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. Parts one and two featured the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the... [20 Jan 2005]
My first computer: The ZX Spectrum
News We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series of articles. Ah, remember the 80s. [11 Jan 2005]
Technologies That Time Forgot: The ZX Spectrum
News We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our Technologies That Time Forgot series of articles. Ah, remember the 80s. [14 Jan 2002]
Technologies that Time Forgot: The BBC Micro
Comment Stand aside Spectrum and Commodore owners, and let our proud BBC fans state their case. Joey Gardiner and Ian Jones are the two silicon.com staffers reminiscing this week, in part three of our series looking back at the home computing boom of the... [28 Jan 2002]
Technologies that Time Forgot: The BBC Micro
News Stand aside Spectrum and Commodore owners, and let our proud BBC fans state their case. Joey Gardiner and Ian Jones are the two silicon.com staffers reminiscing this week, in part three of our series looking back at the home computing boom of the... [25 Jan 2002]
Quote. Unquote. What was your first computer?
News I was programming adventure games in 4K on a Commodore PET at school. silicon.com's latest Big Question video (http://www.silicon.com/a52539 ) features some of our best-known guests telling us how they became involved in computing, whether it was... [10 Apr 2002]
MoD's 'screw it up and you suffer' approach is the way to go
Comment Air Commodore David Rennison, director of the DII programme, said: "IT projects are risky. When the Ministry of Defence revealed the bidders for its £4bn 10-year outsourcing contract this week, it reinforced the message of "risk mitigation" in... [27 Jun 2003]
Video games are 40 years old
News Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64 http://www.silicon.com/a50999 It is 40 years since the birth of what is widely credited as the first video game, since students at MIT created an Asteroids-like program called Spacewar. [05 Mar 2002]
Pornographer squats on Vanessa Feltz
News UK2.net, which registered vanessafeltz.co.uk on behalf of a man named Dean Commodore, did not return our emails and faxes seeking comment. The site, vanessafeltz.co.uk, features an image of the front cover of Readers' Wives, a top-shelf title owned... [22 Mar 2001]
What was your first computer?
News THE VIC-20 AND THE COMMODORE 64 One of our most popular video pieces ever was The Big Question: What was your first computer? first aired in April 2002. At the time it brought in a barrage of reader comments as you all became dewy eyed at the... [14 Jan 2003]
Record industry picking the wrong fight... again, again
News In a second incident, Speakeasy, a national broadband provider, said the RIAA had apologised for sending it a cease-and-desist letter alleging illegal activity on a subscriber's FTP site devoted to the Commodore Amiga computer. [14 May 2003]
The best of 'Reader comments': Electoral liberties, 'rip-off Britain' and farewell to the paperclip
Comment OK, so it was a long time ago, but do you know the best thing about the Commodore 64/Atari era? The past seven days have seen outspoken reactions to a number of stories - with the Microsoft paperclip once again raising ire, and celebration of its... [19 Apr 2001]
