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Creative Micro Designs (CMD) is a computer technologies company which today sells PCs and equipment, but which started out in 1987 selling self-designed hardware for the Commodore 64 and C128 8-bit computers. A drawing of the everyday computer. ... One of the first PCs from IBM - the IBM PC model 5150. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Commodore 64 (1982) The Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64/CBM64, C=64) is a home computer with 64 kilobytes of RAM that was popular in the 1980s. ... The Commodore 128 is a home/personal computer, also known as the C128. ... 8-bit refers to the number of bits used in the data bus of a computer. ...


CMD stopped selling Commodore products in 2001. In July of that year, production and sale of several of their products was taken over by Click Here Software Co. which still is manufacturing and marketing these products. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...


Products for Commodore's C64 and C128

  • JiffyDOS – ROM chip replacement for C64/128 computers and floppy disk drives (such as 1541s), greatly increasing disk drive transfer speeds
  • FD-2000/4000 – fast floppy disk drives
  • HD Series – hard disk drives
  • RAMLink – RAM upgrade for C64/128, essentially a RAM disk with battery backup; used 1MB and 4MB 30-pin SIMM memory modules
  • SuperCPU 64/128 – CPU upgrade boxes to plug into the expansion port of the C64/128; with a 16-bit WDC 65816 CPU @ ~20 Mhz
  • SuperRAMCard – Fast RAM expansion card to fit inside a SuperCPU

Read-only memory (ROM) is used as a storage medium in computers. ... A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a ring of thin, flexible (i. ... The Commodore 1541 (aka CBM 1541, and originally called VIC-1541), made by Commodore International, was the best-known floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64 home computer. ... A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a ring of thin, flexible (i. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... The RAMLink was the RAM expansion product made by Creative Micro Designs (CMD) for Commodores C64/128 home computers. ... Different types of RAM. From top to bottom: DIP, SIPP, SIMM 30 pin, SIMM 72 pin, DIMM, RIMM RAM redirects here. ... A RAM-Disk, Ramdisk or Ramdrive is a virtual SSD Solid_state_disk in segment of active computer memory, RAM, which is being used as secondary storage, typically a role for a disk drive. ... A megabyte is a unit of information or computer storage equal to approximately one million bytes. ... A megabyte is a unit of information or computer storage equal to approximately one million bytes. ... 30- (top) and 72-pin (bottom) SIMMs. ... Intel 80486DX2 microprocessor in a ceramic PGA package A central processing unit (CPU), or sometimes simply processor, is the component in a digital computer that interprets and executes instructions and data contained in software. ... The W65816 (also: 65C816), a 16-bit microprocessor developed by the Western Design Center (WDC), is an expanded and compatible successor to the venerable MOS Technology 6502. ... MegaHertz (MHz) is the name given to one million (106) Hertz, a measure of frequency. ...

External links

  • The Unofficial CMD Homepage
  • Click Here Software, Co.

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Creative Worldwide: Corporate Information: About Creative (927 words)
Creative was founded in Singapore in 1981 with the vision that multimedia would revolutionize the way people interact with their PCs.
Creative is expanding the power of the personal computer with a wide range of interactive PDE products that comprises MP3 players, portable media centers, multimedia speakers and headphones, digital and web cameras, graphics solutions, revolutionary music keyboards and PC peripherals.
Creative's global corporate headquarters is located in Singapore, in the heart of the Asia-Pacific region.
CMD History (1607 words)
Creative Micro Designs, Inc. (CMD) was founded in the fall of 1987 on the strength of JiffyDOS, a new DOS speed enhancement product for the Commodore 64 and 128.
In April of 1988, Creative Micro Designs, Inc. became a full-time business, and tripled its annual sales in dollars each year in the first three years of operation.
CMD's FD Series floppy drives maintained backward compatibility with Commodore's 800K 1581, but also had the ability to format and use high density disks storing 1.6 Megabytes.
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