Tag: COMMODORE

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Just because some of the kings of tech never finished their undergraduate studies (Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg) doesn't mean that kids today should skip the college ...

Behold, worshipers at the altar of the keyboard! Since we've all lent our whole-hearted support to one particular operating system or gadget at some point, and since we're committed to promoting peace and understanding between rival tech factions, we pass on to you a canon of tech cults -- complete with a list of their practitioners' strange habits. The list, courtesy of the scribes of ...

If you're old enough to remember the TV show Dallas in its heyday, then you might remember Commodore, the company that was the first to sell 1,000,000 PCs. It went under in 1994, but it might not have gone bankrupt had Apple co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs successfully convinced Commodore to sell the Apple II PC in 1982. Wozniak explained the potential even to a panel at the Computer ...

For anyone who was alive in the '70s or early '80s, the name Commodore probably brings back memories of classic gaming through clunky brown boxes. These days, of course, the brand has been reborn and slapped onto a variety of things, from high-end gaming PCs (natch) to a selection of portable media players, like the recently-announced Gravel C200. Befitting its name, the Gravel bears a small, ...