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1st single board microcomputer -
MOS
KIM-1 (Commodore bought
MOS tech within 6 months of KIM being released) and not the Apple Kit!
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Best selling computer in
History (even today in 2003)- The Commodore 64 sold 30 million records and is
in the Guinness Book of Records.
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1st 1 million plus unit
selling computer (VIC-20)
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1st computer company to make $1 Billion
dollars in Sales
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1st multimedia computer (Amiga)
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1st computer to have coprocessors (SuperPET)
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1st true-multitasking system was Commodore
Amiga not Apple!
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1st mulitasking OS (Amiga)
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1st portable (notebook) color computer -
SX64
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1st company to develope the DMA bus
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1st portable hand-held calculator
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1st LCD Display
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1st company to define the word "multimedia"
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1st Digital Sine-Cosine generator
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1st and only computer (Amiga)
that can display multiple screens at different resolutions on a single
monitor.
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1st Computer used by average
people (non-computer people) (Commodore 64)
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1st Fluorecent Light Dimming Switch
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1st Fluidtight doors opening/closing device
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1st CD-ROM Video Game Machine
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1st I/O to storage adressing and
architechture scheme
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1st CD-ROM Error Control scheme (cirs)
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1st Joystick controller
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1st Sitdown style videogame controller
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1st mulitple linked video game controllers
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1st Raster Monitor for video graphic
displays
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1st and only computer graphic subsystem that
allows multiple bitplanes and bitdepths available on the screen at the same
time
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1st Sound Interface Chip - SID6581
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1st company to develope the video/digital
to/from analog convertor
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1st company to develop "plug and play"
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1st Object Oriented OS (Amiga)
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1st hardware blitter objects (Amiga)
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1st computer to have "genlock graphics" and
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