Commodore adverts

How to program your family with a VIC 20 computer

Despite the fact that the much-superior Commodore 64 had been around for a couple of years, the VIC-20 was still selling units, and would go on to sell about 2.5 million before be...

"When You Have An Enormous Memory, There's No End To The Things You Can Do"

From the time when 64K was still quite a lot of memory for a home computer, comes this advert from Commodore featuring a cute baby elephant with a whole pile of software piled on ...

To get the most out of your new computer, you really need to use your feet

The SX-64 "portable" wasn't a new idea as there had been similar attempts at luggables in the past, for instance the Digital Group's Mini Bytemaster - although this did have a muc...

Commodore Plus/4: Clean up your study once and for all

First announced at the January 1984 Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Commodore's Plus/4 was something of an attempt to get back to the production ethics of the VIC-2...

For the office. Or the home office.

It's a nicely-illustrated advert showing some dude as half in an office and half working at home - split down the middle whilst one-finger-typing on a Commodore 64. Commodore is ...

Commodore 64 - The Advanced Home Computer

This is a nice 4-page gate-fold sales brochure for the computer that remains the best-selling home computer of all time - the Commodore 64. The brochure, printed for the UK market ...

Commodore 64: Are you only using 1/10th of your brain?

Another UK advert for the Commodore 64, extoling the virtues of more software and peripherals like printers, joysticks and colour monitors. Somewhat disingensouly, it suggests t...

Commodore 64: It's not how much you pay, it's how much you get

In the era of the IBM PC, this Commodore advert compares the price and features of the Commodore 64 and the IBM PCJr. Known by IBM's codename of the "Peanut", the Junior was nev...

The report you are waiting for: simple, factual, honest and 100% biased

This advert was part of a lavish four-page spread in the December 1984 edition of Personal Computer World. It's obviously Christmas as there's a Santa under the entry for "X" for ...

All you need to do this, is this: The Commodore 128 and 64

Officially launched at the 1985 January Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and built with the same case used for the late-model C64s, the Commodore 128 was the company's last ...

£79.99 all in: the Commodore Communications Modem

Way before the masses discovered the joys of the Internet (as in after 1995), there existed a vibrant dial-up community using Bulletin Boards and infotext/Viewdata services like P...

At last, the business PC you can welcome like an old friend

Not to be left out in the stampede for IBM PCs and their compatible ilk (it's four years since the IBM PC launched), comes this offering from Commodore for its version. This par...

The Commodore 128. When you look at the facts, they do seem to weigh rather heavily in our favour.

The 128 was Commodore's last 8-bit computer and was released in 1985, although news of the 128 started appearing at the end of 1984, with Popular Computing Weekly saying that "Com...

Buy one of these Commodore peripherals for £199.99 and get a Seiko RC-1000 free!

It's another advert depicting the mid-1980s rage-du-jour of the "wrist terminal", in the form of the Seiko RC-1000 (also seen here). Smart watches or wearables seem to pop up ev...

Commodore 64: The World's Best-Selling Computer Now Comes ... With a Mouse

The first trackball pointing device had been invented way back in 1941 by Ralph Benjamin as part of British Royal Navy project, but the computer mouse is generally credited to Dou...