Commodore LCD

Commodore LCD
Also known as CLCD
Developer Commodore International
Type laptop
Release date Shown January 1985 (1985-01), never released.[1]
Operating system Commodore BASIC 3.6
CPU Rockwell 65C102 @ 2 MHz
Memory 32 KB RAM
Storage 96 KB ROM
Display LCD

The Commodore LCD (sometimes known in short as the CLCD) was a LCD-equipped laptop made by Commodore International. It was presented at the January 1985 Consumer Electronics Show, but never released. The CLCD was not directly compatible with other Commodore home computers, but its built-in Commodore BASIC 3.6 interpreter could run programs written in the Commodore 128's BASIC 7.0, as long as these programs did not include system-specific POKE commands. Like the Commodore 264 and Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 series computers, the CLCD had several ROM-based office application programs.

The CLCD featured a 2 MHz Rockwell 65C102 CPU (a CMOS 6502 variant) and 32 KB of RAM. The BASIC interpreter and application programs were built into 96 KB of ROM.

References

  1. News:Commodore Shows New 128, 28 Jan 1985, InfoWorld, ...The second new computer, called the Commodore LCD, has built-in Commodore 3.6 Basic, 32K of RAM, and an 80-column- by- 16-line liquid crystal display. "The lap computer employs a proprietary LCD with contrast and viewing angle...
  • Old-Computers.Com: Commodore LCD
  • Secret Weapons of Commodore: The Commodore LCD
  • Commodore LCD, 360 degree model, Russian Vintage Laptop Museum
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