Producer: Commodore - Category: Personal Computer
Home/personal computer, 1983, Commodore. The P500 is the "personal" model of the CBM-II series: unlike the business models it has the VIC-II graphics chip with colour and sprites and runs at 1 MHz, a kind of Commodore 64 with 128 KB and the CBM-II architecture. It was released only in Europe (PAL) in small numbers.
| Year | 1983 |
| Manufacturer | Commodore Business Machines |
| Processor | MOS Technology 6509 at 1 MHz |
| RAM | 128 KB |
| ROM | BASIC 4.0+ and KERNAL |
| Graphics | VIC-II, 40 x 25 text, 320 x 200 pixels, 16 colours, sprites |
| Sound | SID 6581 |
| Storage | external IEEE-488 or serial floppy disk drives, cassette |
| Ports | IEEE-488, RS-232, cartridge port, user port, cassette port, 2 control ports for joysticks, audio/video output |
| Operating system | Commodore BASIC 4.0+ |
| Case | low profile with built-in keyboard (like the Commodore 64) |
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