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| | The Pre-C64 History of Jack Tramiel and Commodore Computer |
 | | In 1976, Tramiel reacts to the calculator fiasco by purchasing MOS Technologies, one of their former suppliers of semiconductors, Frontier (another manufacturer of ICs) and Micro Display Systems (as the name suggest, a supplier of LED Displays). |
 | | Up to then, the only application for the 6502 had been the MOS KIM-1 single board computer, which, in a manner of speaking, is the ancestor of all Commodore computers up to 1985. |
 | | The C128 with its 8502 processor was the final computer to be based on the 6502 CPU, before Commodore's interest shifted to the Amiga technology, which was not designed but rather bought by Commodore and consisted of a Motorola 68000 CPU aided by custom chips. |
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