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Commodore
had rounded-up 80% of
the market overseas.
In 1978, MOS Technology
developed the Video Interface
Chip, or VIC which could
display on a color monitor or
color TV. But the VIC chip
didn't sell because the price
of color displays.
Two
years
later, Apple
and Atari had color
computers, and Commodore
had none so Jack Tramiel
suddenly announced that he
wanted to market a color
computer right away, and he
wanted to retail it for $300!
Introduced in January 1981, at
the Winter Consumer
Electronics Show (CES) in Las
Vegas , the VIC-20 was a big
success. The press very
favourably compared it to the
new TI-99/4 and the Atari
400 computers. One very
important thing about the
VIC-20 was that its expansion
gave birth to the most
popular computer ever built:
the Commodore 64.