Commodore Business Machines

company (CBM) Makers of the PET, Commodore 64,

Commodore 16, Commodore 128, and Amiga personalcomputers. Their logo is a chicken head.

On 29 April 1994, Commodore International announced that it

had been unable to renegotiate terms of outstanding loans and

was closing down the business. Commodore US was expected to

go into liquidation. Commodore US, France, Spain, and Belgium

were liquidated for various reasons. The names Commodore and

Amiga were maintained after the liquidation.

On 1995-04-21 CBM was bought by Escom AG, a German company

and production of the Amiga resumed. Production of the 8-bit

range alledgedly never stopped during the time in liquidation

because a Chinese company were producing the C64 in large

numbers for the local market there.

(1996-07-22)