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After I read that Commodore made filing cabinets I really am hurting for this.

A few years ago I walked through the flea market to see the big Commodore blue and red logo on a cabinet. The guy also had a few miscellaneous Commodore computer stuff and from talking with him about a minute I realized that he had cleaned out a building. Could this man have cleaned out the original Commodore factory or something??? I would really like to know, it seems odd now that I own quite a bit of Commodore stuff that would have matched with it. It also would make a nice toolbin for Commodore parts, :cool:
 
Well the long name for Commodore was Commodore Business Machines. I'm not too suprised that they also initially manufactured off supplies such as filing cabinets until they realized how popular computers were going to be.
 
And apparently Jack Tramiel went back to his business machine roots when he started selling Atari calculators in the late '80s:

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I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that someone who had a big pile of Commodore file cabinets cleaned out one of Commodore's old buildings. It could just as easily be that he cleaned out a building that belonged to a reliable Commodore customer.

Personally, if I'm ever somewhere and see one for sale, I'll have a very hard time turning it down, seeing as the 64 was my first computer, and I progressed to a 128 and an Amiga 2000. I was about as smitten with that company and its products as you could get. Admitting that it was over and buying a Compaq 486 in August 1994 was a very hard thing for me to do. And I hated that Compaq for not being an Amiga.
 
That Altair desk has me itching for computer furniture again too. An Altair desk and TRS-80 desk are on my informal watch/want list, as is a formica table style PDP or such. Anything to sneak some more tech into the living room without the wife noticing j/k. I'm always tempted to get a few other Commodore items (calculator) or yeah even a drawer maybe just for collection/completion/conversation sake. I've seen some Apple things lately but unfortunately while I do really like the concept of early Apple, the Mac crowd turned me off with that era/collecting which that usually seems to be a part of. But, you might try some creative googling using the site: searching feature. Actually I just got in contact with another nice gentleman who had an Altair table too, course he's using it which is also great :)
 
I have a Commodore two-drawer filing cabinet right here in my den.

I have no idea where it came from, but, I believe it was a fairly common office furniture item at one point.

I'm afraid it doesn't have a serial number or manufacture date on it though (that I can see from here). LOL
 
Perhaps resellers got filing cabinets? Although I didn't see any C= labeled cabinets in the basement of the former reseller I went to.
 
Commodore owned an office furniture company that made filing cabinets. I'm not sure they sold many in the US and it was sold off at some point to get money for other products just like the adding machine business was sold off as Commodore moved into calculators, but that business is where the case for the Pet came from and why it ended up being made from folded metal instead of plastic as the prototype shown at the shoes before release was. Jack Tramiel would rather at the time, to save money, use technology they already had and factories already in place than to tool up for a plastic case for a product with unknown potential for revenue. The keys for the original 2001 keyboard came, from what I've read, from the calculator division and were the same kinds of keys used on some models of those.
 
This wasn't just a filing cabinet, all of these had a nice Commdore C= logo in big letters on the sides, even had the blue and red stripes after the C.
 
I own a couple of Commodore oddities. I have a Commodore calculator and an unused Commdore notebook (I think it's 40 pages). I used to have a Commodore mousepad, but I wore it out.
 
Chandler1 said:
Something I regret....
Seeing a pet 2001chiclet for sale at $15 and not buying it
(in 1997!)
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I think I saw a Lisa 1 at habitat for humanity a few years ago with profile for $20. I think they scrapped it :(. Ever since I wanted a Lisa computer. :p
 
My guess is, that if it had a big C= logo stuck on it, that it was used either in a Commodore office, in a Commodore resellers office, or in someplace where someone was really into Commodore. Companies get stick on logos all the time and the cabinet may or may not have been intended to have it. Commodore would have had a lot of logo stickers as well as the other items since it was a company that did shows. Might even have been a filing cabinet that C= took to office equipment shows as part of a display.

I have many Commodore oddities myself. Amiga pen, Commodore pen and pencil set. Commodore business card holder. Users Group seal embosser. Amiga solar calculator shaped like a 3.5" floppy (these I believe were given out at shows but the pens and business card holder were too nice for show swag). Then a few calculators, Adding machines, two typewriters (the portable computers of the age before home computers), a few used binders. I bought some of those random boxes of commodore stuff when Liage (think that was the name of the company) was selling those.
 
Anyone have a Commodore watch? (I still have the newspaper ad from Mr. Calculator selling them for under $20). Surely folks remember their calculators--my friend Patty was particularly proud of having written the software for their first scientific model. I got to fool with the prototype, mounted in a plywood box.
 
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don't have one, but you can actually find some people selling New Old Stock of unopened Commodore watches, though the price tag is like $200. Apparently someone came across them in the whole C= liquidation stuff from a warehouse or something.
 
I'm getting a two-drawer commodore filing cabinet tomorrow! My friend was going to throw it away until he saw the logo... and he knew just who to call ;-)

Steve
 
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