If you got some of your early computer experience on a Pet/Vic-20/C64/Amiga, etc., you’ll likely have a passing interest in this story.
A Dutch consumer media company is hoping it can tap the power of the VIC 20, the PET and the Commodore 64 to launch a new wave of products, including a home media center device and a portable GPS (Global Positioning System) unit and media player.
And then:
The company has said it plans to launch three products at the show. The Commodore MediaBox is an all-in-one home entertainment box with an Internet connection, digital TV tuner and hard drive for playing music downloads, games or on-demand video. The Commodore Navigator is a Windows CE-based portable device with a 20GB hard drive for music and video storage as well as built-in GPS and a 3.6-inch touch screen.
Similar to the old CDTV? . <nostalgia> Back in the dawn of time, I worked for an Amiga developer (Aegis Development, then Oxxi) and I remember getting a briefing from Gail Wellington (the “mother of the Amiga”) about the CDTV before it was launched—and not long thereafter I went to Quarterdeck. The CDTV was an interesting idea but never sold as wildly as Commodore would have liked.) </nostalgia>
On first glance, it looks to me that they’re basically going to leverage the brand name, but whatever. Others have certainly tried to revive Commodore, and I can only wish them luck.
Link to the article here.
Oh, and curious about the history of Commodore? Click here.
Alex Eckelberry