Reproduced April 7 2002 with permission from Burt of the Commodore 64 Dungeon – Graphics and a few items appended by Commodore.ca Sept 7 2021
The following is a list of Commodore innovations:
- 1st single board microcomputer – MOS KIM-1 (Commodore bought MOS tech within 6 months of KIM being released) and not the Apple 1 Kit!
- Best selling computer in History (even today in 2003)- The Commodore 64 sold 30 million records and is in the Guinness Book of Records
Complete Line of Commodore Canada Products from 1981st 1 million plus unit selling computer, the VIC-20
- 1st computer company to make $1 Billion dollars in Sales
- 1st computer company to have more than 50% of the global home computer market
- 1st multimedia computer (Amiga)
- 1st computer to have co-processors (SuperPET)
- 1st true-multitasking system was Commodore Amiga not Apple!
- 1st multitasking OS (Amiga)
- 1st portable (“laptop”) color computer – SX64
- 1st company to develop the DMA bus
- 1st portable hand-held calculator
- 1st LCD Display
- 1st Modem to sell 1,000,000 units
- 1st company to define the word “multimedia”
- 1st Digital Sine-Cosine generator
- 1st and only computer (Amiga) that can display multiple screens at different resolutions on a single monitor.
- 1st Computer used by average people (non-computer people) (Commodore 64)1st Fluorescent Light Dimming Switch
- 1st Fluidtight doors opening/closing device
1st CD-ROM Video Game Machine - 1st I/O to storage addressing and architecture scheme
- 1st CD-ROM Error Control scheme (cirs)
- 1st Joystick controller
- 1st Sitdown style video-game controller
- 1st multiple linked video game controllers
- 1st Raster Monitor for video graphic displays
- 1st and only computer graphic subsystem that allows multiple bitplanes and bitdepths available on the screen at the same time
- 1st Sound Interface Chip – SID6581
- 1st company to develop the video/digital to/from analog converter
- 1st company to develop “plug and play”
- 1st Object Oriented OS (Amiga)
- 1st hardware blitter objects (Amiga)
- 1st computer to have “genlock graphics” and overscan
SOURCES: Delphion Homepage The patent place/intelectual property page listing
2 Comments
Michael Tomczyk · July 27, 2021 at 12:31 pm
First million seller modem (VICModem)
Ian Matthews · September 6, 2021 at 6:19 pm
Hi Michael;
Its good to hear from you again. That is an excellent point about the modem and I just added it to he list.
Thanks again