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[quarkx]

Hey all,
More on my Blog,
I just got back from the local thrift store and picked up this beauty!
I thought it was just a file Cabnet, but since it was a Commodore I had to have it. Low and behold its a DESK! I will get better photos of it later when I have my good camera back, but I am rushed today to go for our Amicue user group and I have to work tonight.
For those that want specs, its 48 inches high and 29 inches long, 18 inches deep. once i clean it up, I probably will put my A600 in it. and it does have a file drawer. Here, cheap new file cabnets can be bought for $50, I got this for $40 and it went to charity!
Bad phone camera photos

[save2600]

That's very slick! Never saw anything like that. Do you think someone just slapped the
C= badge on it though? Or was it used in a Commodore office? Never knew they made
or had cabinets like that made for them...

[bbond007]

Originally Posted by save2600

That's very slick! Never saw anything like that. Do you think someone just slapped the
C= badge on it though? Or was it used in a Commodore office? Never knew they made
or had cabinets like that made for them...

Commodore had all sorts of office equipment divisions at one point including a metal cabinet company.

Anyway, Jack Tramel (not wanting to invest in a more expensive plastic case) had the metal cabinet people make the enclosure for the PET computer.

[quarkx]

Originally Posted by bbond007

Commodore had all sorts of office equipment divisions at one point including a metal cabinet company.

Anyway, Jack Tramel (not wanting to invest in a more expensive plastic case) had the metal cabinet people make the enclosure for the PET computer.

I could be wrong, but I think the Commodore office furniture was only sold in Canada (posibly the US also) but they were selling the office stuff long before the computers. Started in the mid '60's I think. The Commodore file cabnets, are the most popular, you still see them all over the place here, but I have never seen a desk/wall unit and there seems to be nothing on the net about the office furniture other than a few pictures of a file cabnet.

[mr_a500]

I have a huge Commodore desk (5 feet by 2 1/2 feet) and it was made in Canada. The weird thing is... I didn't even go looking for it - it found me. It was left in my house by the previous owners because it was too big and heavy for them to move. I was shocked when I noticed it was a Commodore - and I only noticed after I set it up in my computer room and put a bunch of Commodore computers on it.

(you can see it in some of the pictures in my signature link)

[ral-clan]

Commodore Canada (the office furniture devision) also made an official desk for the Commodore VIC-20/C64. My Dad bought one for my Commodore 64 from Canadian Tire (the hardware/department store). I still have it. It is a brown sheet metal desk with a fake wood grain top. There is a special shelf made to accomodate a 1541 drive and it came with a moveable metal stand for a 1702 monitor (and a space underneath for all the cables to run from the back of the C64 underneath it.

It had a Commodore logo on the front (silver stick) which over the years has faded so that the logo is almost invisible.