It's kind of sad that so many parts of this history are lost, and human memory after almost 40 years is too fragile to recover it reliably. That makes me wonder what ultimately happened to Commodore documents (memos, design docs etc) that might be helpful in recreating timelines like this? Regards, Michau. smf wrote: > My understanding of the time line. > > The p500 project was another in a long line of colour pet project to > satisfy Jacks desire to have an apple 2 killer. > > The chips were started in January 1981 > > Yashi Terakura became aware of the chips at the same time as engineers > in the US were arguing that what people wanted was a VIC20 sequel and > not an apple 2 killer. > > The Max and the C64 were started at roughly the same time, but there was > more work necessary for the C64. > > The chips were finished in November 1981 > > The C64 and P500 being shown at January 1982 CES. Although the C64 was > called the VIC-40 and the p500 was called the commodore 64. > > The Max was then launched along with some software. > > The C64 was launched in August 1982. > > I have no idea when the C64 gained ultimax mode and the memory map & cia > hookups became compatible. It certainly wasn't the case that there was a > finished max machine design that they started with to create the c64. > > On 06/03/2018 22:07, Michał Pleban wrote: > >> >> I am not sure what was the actual timeline here? Was the P500 or 64 >> developed first? The CPU part numbers (6509 vs. 6510) might suggest that >> the B series were designed first, but the MAX Machine (which is the true >> ancestor of the 64) was being sold some time before the B series was >> even announced. >> >> Regards, >> Michau. >> >> >> Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2018-03-07 13:03:02
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