Commodore display
A steady stream of people took advantage of an offer from Commodore last Tuesday to visit a display of the Commodore 64 personal computer at the Christchurch Town Hall.
More than 1000 people visited the display during the public session in the afternoon. In the morning, Commodore personnel from Auckland held sessions for their South Island dealers and other guests.
Mr Dick Anderson, managing director of Commodore Computer (N.Z.), Ltd, put the main reason for the display as improving the company’s public profile. Among the invited guests were educationists from the Christchurch area, a clear indication of Commodore’s aim to break into the school market with the Commodore 64 and VIC-20. Mr Anderson estimated that 5000 Commodore 64s
will be sold in this country by the end of the year. He put sales in the last two months at 500 units. On display with the Commodore 64s at the Town Hall were software packages (including the Primesoft farming programs, converted to run on the Commodore 64 from the* VIC-20 versions), printers, printer-plotters, a graphics tablet, a mouse, a track ball, and a prototype of a touch-sensitive screen.
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