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    GPIB (redirect from IEEE 488)
    peripheral bus for early microcomputers, notably the Commodore PET. Newer standards have largely replaced IEEE 488 for computer use, but it is still used by test...
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    sound output or connection to "user" projects or non-Commodore devices and a parallel IEEE-488 port which allowed for daisy-chaining peripherals such...
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    steel case form similar to that of the Commodore 4040, and uses the parallel IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET/CBM computers. The 8280 replaced...
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    bus (proprietary serial version of IEEE-488, 6-pin DIN plug) for CBM printers and disk drives PET-type Commodore Datasette 300 baud tape interface (edge...
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    and Commodore 64/128 an IEEE-488 port. The first produced was the VIC-20 IEEE 488 cartridge, model number "VIC-1112", produced by Commodore. Commodore 64...
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    the expensive IEEE-488 cables was sought. To ensure a ready supply of inexpensive cabling for its home computer peripherals, Commodore chose standard...
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    computers: the VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Plus/4, Commodore 16, and Commodore 65. The parallel IEEE-488 interface used on the Commodore PET (1977) computer...
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    VIC-20 (redirect from Commodore VIC 20)
    IEEE-488-derivative CBM-488 interface was designed by Glen Stark. It served several purposes, including costing substantially less than the IEEE-488 interface...
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    retained the IEEE-488 interface from the PET instead of the IEC serial interface on the VIC-20 and C64. The small amount of software Commodore developed...
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  • Business Machines. These disk drives use the parallel interface IEEE-488 to connect with Commodore's PET and CBM-II line of microcomputers. The 8060 is a single-disk...
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    [citation needed] The Commodore 64 IEEE-488 Cartridges were made by various companies, but Commodore themselves made very few for the Commodore 64/128 family...
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    The Commodore 8050, Commodore 8250, and Commodore SFD-1001 are 5¼-inch floppy disk drives manufactured by Commodore International, primarily for its 8-bit...
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    highest-capacity serial-bus drive that was ever made by Commodore (the 1-MB SFD-1001 uses the parallel IEEE-488), and the only 3½" one. However, starting in 1991...
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    Machines. It uses a wide-case form, and uses the parallel IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET/CBM computers. These drive models use a single-density...
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    similar steel case form to the Commodore 9060/9090 hard disk drives, and use the parallel IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET/CBM computers. Essentially...
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    serial port (Commodore's proprietary "serial CBM-488 bus", was a variation of the Commodore PET IEEE interface as used on the VIC-20 and Commodore 64, which...
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    this originally had been planned when Commodore first switched from the parallel IEEE-488 interface to the CBM-488 custom serial interface, hardware bugs...
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    15 connect via Commodore's unique serial IEEE-488 bus (IEC Bus) serial (TALK/LISTEN) protocols; all others use the parallel IEEE-488.   1.0 – found in...
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  • KERNAL (redirect from Commodore Kernal)
    versions used in its successors: the VIC-20, Commodore 64, Plus/4, Commodore 16, and Commodore 128. The Commodore 8-bit machines' KERNAL consists of the low-level...
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    MSD Super Disk (category Commodore 64 peripheral manufacturers)
    the Commodore 64, although other manufacturers soon followed suit. The MSD drives include both an IEEE-488 parallel interface and the custom Commodore serial...
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  • Batteries Included is an expansion port device for the Commodore 64 that provides an IEEE-488 interface allowing peripherals designed for the PET/CBM...
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    The Commodore 65 (also known as the C64DX) is a prototype computer created at Commodore Business Machines in 1990–1991. It is an improved version of the...
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  • Commodore BASIC, also known as PET BASIC or CBM-BASIC, is the dialect of the BASIC programming language used in Commodore International's 8-bit home computer...
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    The Commodore 1540 (also known as the VIC-1540) is the companion floppy disk drive for the VIC-20 home computer. It was introduced in 1982. It uses single-sided...
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    Interface (SPI) bus UNI/O SMBus HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface IEEE-488 (also known as GPIB, General-Purpose Interface Bus, and HPIB, Hewlett-Packard...
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    The Commodore 1570 is a 5¼" floppy disk drive for the Commodore 128 home/personal computer. It is a single-sided, 170 kB version of the Commodore 1571...
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  • C-Net DS2 (category Commodore 64 software)
    performance could be attained through the use of memory expansion modules, IEEE-488 interface hard drives, and modem speeds including the mid-1980s state of...
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  • computer including mobile broadband modems (sometimes called connect cards), IEEE 1394 (FireWire) connectors, USB connectors, Ethernet network ports, Serial...
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    Instruments ADC71A Analog to Digital Converter IEEE-488 (GPIB,HPIB) Commodore bus, another serialisation of IEEE-488 Apple Desktop Bus Universal Serial Bus *Quick...
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    (or Hewlett Packard Interface Bus) which was ultimately standardized as IEEE-488 (aka GPIB). Some well-known historical standards include VMEbus, STD Bus...
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