#file cabinets
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At my place of employment, we have some file cabinets with the Commodore
logo on them. Theyv'e been in the office for at least 10 years, but it
was still interesting to see that they at one time did, or liscensed
somebody to, manufacture office furnishings.
I think they sold off the steel products factory in Canada in about 1983.
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Intangible Assets Manufacturing
>>At my place of employment, we have some file cabinets with the Commodore logo
on them. Theyv'e been in the office for at least 10 years, but it was still
interesting to see that they at one time did, or liscensed somebody to,
manufacture office furnishings.<<
In fact, I did overlook it, but we have in Belgium a brand of attache-cases
that uses the name “Commodore''. The logo isn't exactly the same though.
Bart Van Bockstaele at 100574.2352@compuserve.com
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My recollection is that originally Commodore was a business equipment
manufacturer or distibutor. It went into the computer business in one of its
earlier "nine" lives.
Bill
It's interesting to note that the Commodore name literally fell of the back
of a truck…
Many years back, I asked Jack Tramiel what caused him to select the name
'Commodore' for his company….
He said, "I knew I wanted a name that represented a military rank of some
kind. 'General Electronics' was taken, as was 'Admiral', and I hadn't found
the name I wanted. Then, one day, I was driving is West Germany, and saw a
furniture truck with the name 'Commodore' on it; that was it!"
–Jim
he did say 'business is war'.
>>Then, one day, I was driving is West Germany, and saw a furniture truck with
the name 'Commodore' on it; that was it!"<<
LOL! I'll use that one in one of my courses!
Do you know where they found the name Personal Electronic Transactor?
Bart Van Bockstaele at 100574.2352@compuserve.com
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Purely speculation on my part, but I suspect that Chuck Peddle (the
designer of the first Commodore computer) conjured up the word PET as
a follow-on to such items as "pet rocks" that were going around. The
idea, I imagine, was to create an image of a computer as a friendly
companion, as opposed to the general image of computers then as
large, impersonal beasts.
Again speculating, I think that Personal Electronic Transactor was
thought up later as an explanation of the acronym PET.
>> Again speculating, I think that Personal Electronic Transactor was thought
up later as an explanation of the acronym PET.<<
I can live with that. Seems quite probable.
Bart Van Bockstaele at 100574.2352@compuserve.com
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