PC

The acronym PC stands for Personal Computer, an industry standard for microcomputers introduced by IBM in the 1970s. They based it on an Intel microprocessor, but AMD and Cyrix later made compatible CPUs.

• XT models: 8086/8088 processor
• AT models: 80286 / 80386 / 80486 / or 80586 (Pentium™)

Commodore also made PC compatible computers.

• CBMxxxx (e.g. CBM 2000)
• PCxx (e.g. PC10)

Later, they produced PC compatibles based on AMD processors, like the Commodore-LT series laptop and desktop machines.

Other home computers gained short names, like the Commodore 64, which owners nicknamed the C64.

Overview of Commodore PCs

PET/CBM

• KIM-1
• PET 2001-series: 2001-4 / 2001-8 (RAM in KByte)
  • without datasette: 2001-N-8 / 2001-N-16 / 2001-N-32
  • with business keyboard: 2001-B-8 / 2001-B-16 / 2001-B-32
• CBM 3000-series: 3001 / 3008 / 3016 / 3032
• CBM 4000-series: 4008 / 4016 / 4032 / 4064 (mix of C64 and CBM 4000)
• CBM 8000-series: 8008 / 8006 / 8032 / 8064 / 8096* / 8296* (128 Kbyte) *(D-version with 2 slim line disk drives)
• MMF 9000 (variant of a CBM 8032 with extra CPU 6809, also known as Super PET 9000)

• CBM 500-series: 505 / 510 / 520
• CBM 600-series: 610 / 620 / 630
• CBM 700-series: 705 / 710 / 720 / 730
• CBM 900

Desktops

• Commodore PC-10 I,II,III
• Commodore PC-20 I,II,III
• Commodore PC-30 I,II,III
• Commodore PC-35
• Commodore PC-40 I,II,III
• Commodore PC-45
• Commodore PC-50 I,II,III
• Commodore PC-1
• Commodore PC 60-III
• Commodore PC 70-III

• Commodore C286-12
• Commodore C286-16

• Commodore C386-25
• Commodore C386-25C
• Commodore C386SX-16
• Commodore C386SX-20
• Commodore C386SX-20C
• Commodore T386-25C
• Commodore T486-25C

• Commodore C486-25C
• Commodore C486-33C
• Commodore C486SX-20

Laptops / Notebooks

• Commodore C286-LT
• Commodore C386SX-LT
• Commodore 4386SX-LT
• Commodore 486SX-CLT

Links

Wikipedia: Personal_computer

• The timeline of IBM PC at pctimeline.info