# Commodore 64—How It Was Made

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**Tags:** computing, 6502, commodore-64, mos-technology\
**Created:** [31 January 2022 15:27 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/commodore-64-how-it-was-made/811 "2022-01-31T15:27:19Z")\
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[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4817c63bdff595469917d3c860f9659928092fe0.jpeg "How It Was Made: THE COMMODORE 64 factory tour") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBqGyf8eQVk)

This is a Commodore promotional film from the early 1980s tracing the manufacturing of a [Commodore 64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64) computer from the beach where the silicon originated to customer delivery. The film was restored from a poor-quality VHS recording with German narration. The images were restored (kind of) with a suite of video reconstruction and editing software and new English narration added. Particularly interesting are the shots of early 1980s semiconductor manufacturing at [MOS Technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology), by then a division of Commodore. By present-day standards, chip fabrication was tremendously labour-intensive, and chips affordable only because of the quantity of small chips that could be made on a silicon wafer.

Back in the day, I wrote some [programs for the Commodore 64](https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/commodore/).