A Commodore PeeCee? Surely not?!

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Well Commodore did make PCs... though I have no idea what they looked like, I never had one.

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tokyoracer wrote:
I thought Escom only owned the "Amiga" name and the permission to build the machines (A1200 for example)?

Escom bought everything Amiga, and formed Amiga Technologies, to keep all Amiga IP together... I have no idea what happened to the Commodore IP...

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tokyoracer wrote:
Pitty, I think "Commodore" has much more badge then the Amiga name. But why would such a small company make PC's? Wouldn't it have been safer to just concerntrate on the Amiga brand?

Commodore wasn't such a small company... it was was one of the biggest computer companies of the 80's!

The PC market was massive, bigger than Amiga. Commodore wanted a slice of that pie. I think that was a mistake, and history suggests I'm right... but we don't actually know what happened back then...

I'm guessing now but am I right in thinking the PC's were named "Commodore" and the Amiga's were just named "Amiga" by Escom?

Once EsCOM set up Amiga Technologies, the Amiga was its own company and brand. It was not a Commodore Amiga.

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HopperJF wrote:
Quite a few companies do it,

Pepsi and Coca-cola
Currys and PC World

:-?

Sure Currys and PC World are both owned by The Dixons Group... But Coca-cola and Pepsi are two unrelated companies...