Commodore International

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Commodore International
Industry Computer hardware
Electronics
Fate Bankruptcy
Founded Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1954)
Defunct 1994
Headquarters West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Key people Jack Tramiel (Founder)
Irving Gould (Main investor and chairman)
Products Commodore PET
Commodore VIC 20
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Amiga
Others

Commodore is the common name for Commodore International Limited. It is a U.S. computer and electronics manufacturing company. It's headquarters is in West Chester, Pennsylvania. This company was important in the development of the homepersonal computer in the 1970s and 1980s. Commodore developed the world's best-selling desktop computer. It was called the Commodore 64 (1982). Commodore later released the Amiga computers in 1985.