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Ira Velinsky, industrial designer for Commodore and Atari (commodore atari atarist sega dec) (homeip.net)
6 points by dfarquhar 2 days ago | 2 comments


  • starac 2 days ago
    Very interesting! I am just a little confused about this part:

    > His obituary credited him with the design of the original Commodore 64, nicknamed the breadbin.

    I thought the case for Commodore 64 was basically a copy of VIC-20.

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    • bmonkey325 1 day ago
      It’s a bit murky. Technically not wrong. He does hold a design patent on the c64. The breadbin is what got used but what I have read was another case had been planned that never shipped. I can’t really tell from the drawings in the second link if that’s the OG c64 or this rumoured, phantom c64. Companies will get patents to protect themselves even if they never use them.

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adammossoff_on-this-date-in-i...

      And https://retropatents.com/products/commodore-64-patent-print

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