Commodore Business Machines floats on the Montreal Stock Exchange

23rd July 1965
Commodore Business Machines floats on the Montreal Stock Exchange

In 1954, Polish immigrant and Auschwitz survivor Jack Tramiel started the Commodore Portable Typewriter Company, the company that would become Commodore International.

In 1962 the company was formally incorporated as Commodore Business Machines (CBM), and on 23rd July 1962 the company floated on the Montreal Stock Exchange.

Commodore went on to develop the world's best-selling home computer, the Commodore 64.

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