Advertisements of Commodore-Hardware

A prospectus from 1977 which praises the different applications and capabilities of the PET2001. As the name "PET" was under license by Philips this machine is the only model in Germany with this name - contrary to the international market.

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For the first time Commodore offers with this 3001 series a completely usable system.

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The follow-up model in 1982, in its 2nd version, charms with an enlarged screen from 9" to 12", which nevertheless shows only 40 characters per line!

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In the same year the 8000 series, which can show 80 characters per line standard and is optionally supplied with a German keyboard-layout, is on the market. Besides that Commodore manages with an additional daughter-board and the so called (L)oadable (O)perating (S)ystem per diskette to get over the "magic" 64kB-limit which results of the processor architecture. The disadvantage of the daughter-board, which contents 64kB additional memory, is that the Operating System needs 32kB, so the space available for the user is only 64kB instead of the possible 96kB.
The different picture sizes results of the strange folding of the prospectus and not of a scanning mistake.

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As this journal advertisement shows, Commodore offers an upgrading-kit from the basic-model CBM8032 to CBM8096.



This single-sided disk drive for the 8000 series was able to record half a megabyte on double-density-disks. The competitor "Big Blue" only made 360 kB even with a double-sided disk with the same density.

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This pen-plotter may to be seen in the context of a "high-resolution" graphical card, optional available by Commodore for the 8000s, as an unlucky approach for CAD. Contrary to the graphical card I do not know anything about the real existence of such a device.

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The "SuperPET" - called "MMF9000" in Germany because of the above mentioned licence problems with Philips - was the first multi-processor system by Commodore and crowned the series of the CBM-1 computers with angular case. It accomodated the typical MOS 6502 as well as the MC 6809 made by Motorola. This machine could be looked at as an "intelligent terminal" for the use with Mainframe-Computers for which also the included RS 232-Interface and the available programming languages stand. These were delivered by the Waterloo-University in Toronto (Canada) and consisted of the languages APL, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, an additional Basic to the Commodore-Basic present in ROM, as well as a comfortable Assembler. It is interesting that the manuals, delivered in Germany, were the original manuals written in english, but the name "SuperPET" was changed into "MMF9000" with a sticker at the cover, and on the following pages the name was completely erased with correction fluid.

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The models CBM9060 and 9090 were the only hard-disk drives made by Commodore for the 8-bit area. They had the "gigantic" capacity of 5 resp. 7.5 MB!, could write the data only in one directory, and needed about 1 minute to spin up.

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This is a prospectus of 1982 which obviously was published to do marketing research! None of the mapped computers were put on the (german) market in this way.
The picture of the well-known C64 is obviously a retouched picture of a V(I)C20, because this kind of body-colour was never used. Even the very few existing ones which had this kind of keyboard, were furnished with left-over VC20-keyboards.
On page 5 you can see the model "P500" which never came on the market. Before the final assembly, the separate parts built in Braunschweig (Germany) were given to "Völkner Elektronic" and sold at a loss by them. Those few existent ones with a serial number were pre-series models, which were given to computer journals and big computer shops as specimen. These computers, which like all CBM-II models are supplied with MOS 6509 processors, are highly desired collectors items.
The pictured CBM7xx computers are examples without value, too. Apart from the fact that the later produced devices had a somewhat different case, one can see by a closer look that the integrated disk-drives are only apertures. Strangely enough the pictures show the well-known monochrome screen, but in the advert text a high-resolution colour graphic is indicated. The CP/M module mentioned in the text, consisted of a daughter-board with an 8088 processor which were (ask why?) praised as "MS-DOS" capable. This board seemed to be available, but was dropped - just like the double drive - for a "low-cost" variant of this computer type.
The VC10 on the last page was put on the market only in Japan - known as "MAX-Machine or "Ulti-MAX". Anyway, all packing I know of the computer as well as of the required modules have Japanese writing on it.

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This price list for the V(I)C20 is a special document. Looking back now it seems unbelievable how much money a computer and accessory did cost.

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