Home computers in Australia, a fast history.

Sowing the seeds of discontent However, TI had seen the growth of electronic calculators and rather than just supply Commodore with chips, TI developed its own range of calculators in 1975 and sold them reportedly for less than it was selling the parts to Commodore. Texas Instruments TI-99/4 (1979), TI-99/4A (1981) By the late-1970s, the world had moved on from calculators to computers and again, Texas Instruments saw the booming home computer market and wanted a piece of the action. Commodore VIC-20 (1981), C64 (1982) Large-scale integration (LSI), the squeezing of thousands of transistors into a single silicon chip, had not only made possible the home computer, but was making it more affordable, no more so than with the launch of the Commodore VIC-20 in 1981. The Commodore-TI Price War However, the Commodore 64's success came at a crossroads for the home computer market in late-1982. [Extracted from the article]