Commodore VIC-20: Computer for the masses

VIC-20 was a big turn in the history of Commodore. Commodore from the beginning had a portfolio for offices. Typewriters, furnitures, calculators and even their first computer the PET were all business related. It is very interesting story how they started to produce computer "for the masses, not for the classes" as Tramiel summarised. It was half planned - half just happened. 00:05 - Intro 01:05 Key players in Commodore and historical background 04:57 Decision and the first prototypes 09:15 Turn the prototype to a market ready package 13:55 Unboxing of VIC-20 18:05 Under the hood 20:25 Friendly documentation: a key factor to success 24:32 Games Credits: I used multiple sources to collect information. I can't list all of them as I gathered information for this video since years and it would be a very long list, but I drop here at least the two major one. The main source was Brian Bagnall's book: Commodore : a company on the edge. I would like to also mention commodore.ca and their collection.