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From: Hg on 4 Jul 2008 18:43
What was the development cost of the 64 in 1982?
I know Jack set a budget for the machine, that or the real cost will do
as an answer.
I know the Amiga cost more than $2 million to reach prototype stage.
From: Hg on 6 Jul 2008 21:10
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:43:04 +0000, Hg wrote:

> What was the development cost of the 64 in 1982? I know Jack set a
> budget for the machine, that or the real cost will do as an answer.
> I know the Amiga cost more than $2 million to reach prototype stage.

So it looks like nobody, apart from JT or a few select finance people
from Commodore in the early 80's knows how much the 64 cost to develop.
And they must have long since forgotten the cost.

Seems like one of those facts about the 64 we'll never know, similar to
how many C64's were manufactured. When the numbers i've seen for that
figure come with a margin of error in the millions, then it's safe to
assume it really is unknown.

From: Brian Ketterling on 7 Jul 2008 05:55
In news:YHxbk.20911$E41.15143(a)text.news.virginmedia.com,
Hg <hg(a)hg2.hg> wrote:

> What was the development cost of the 64 in 1982?
> I know Jack set a budget for the machine...

According to the article "Design Case History: The Commodore 64" in the
March 1985 _IEEE Spectrum_:

"The cost of developing the Commodore 64? No one knows. 'I had no formal
budget accountability,' said [Charles] Winterble, 'other than Jack [Tramiel]
watching me. Jack said that budgets were a license to steal.'...
development costs [were] absorbed in company overhead..." [due to use of
facilities that would otherwise be idle, and "people who were there anyway"]

Brian
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