Commodore International
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Commodore International （other names include Commodore International Limited and Commodore Business Machines） was an American home computer and electronics manufacturer founded by Jack Tramiel.
Commodore International （CI）, along with its subsidiary Commodore Business Machines （CBM）, was a significant participant in the development of the home personal computer industry in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
The company developed and marketed the world's best-selling desktop computer, the Commodore 64 （1982）, and released its Amiga computer line in July 1985.
With quarterly sales ending 1983 of $49 million （equivalent to $108 million in 2019）, Commodore was one of the world's largest personal computer manufacturers.
Commodore logo （1965–1984） Minuteman MM3S Commodore co-founders Jack Tramiel and Manfred Kapp met in the early 1950s while both employed by the Ace Typewriter Repair Company in New York City.
In 1954, they formed a partnership to sell used and reconditioned typewriters and used their profits to purchase the Singer Typewriter Company.
After acquiring a local dealership selling Everest adding machines, Tramiel convinced Everest to give him and Kapp exclusive Canadian rights to its products and established Everest Office Machines in Toronto in 1955.
By 1958, the adding machine business was slowing, but Tramiel made a connection with an Everest agent in England who alerted him to a business opportunity to import into Canada portable typewriters manufactured by a Czechoslovakian company.
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