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#### Commodore CBM 500 Series

History and Trivia:
The 500 / 600 / 700 series were mainly sold in Europe, but a few models are known to have been
sold in the United States. The CBM 600 is same as the 500 but has a 80 column display and
256 Kb RAM. The CBM 700 is same as the 600 but has two 5.25" disk drives (370 KB each) and a
hard disk (7.5 MB). Microsoft Basic is in ROM. The Z80 and the 8088 are optional. When they
are used, the 6809 is used then for i/o, display and keyboard management. It works under
Commodore DOS or CP/M and MSDOS when the computer use the other processors.

created on Tue Jan 01 12:56:01 2002