Commodore computer desk

Commodore began its existence as an office equipment company, producing items such as metal filing cabinets. Once Commodore began producing computers, it applied its expertise in sheet metal fabrication to the outer case of early PET/CBM machines and the VIC-1020 expansion chassis. Commodore also produced at least two desks as accessories for its line of 8-bit computers which incorporated sheet metal (among other materials).

An early Japanese advertisement for the Commodore VIC-1001 (localized version of the VIC-20) shows a collapsible white desk with red and blue striping and the Commodore logo and name. It has not been determined whether this desk was actually made available to the public.

In the early 1980s Commodore Canada produced a brown metal-legged desk with a faux wood-grained particle board top. The design of this desk was tailored to the VIC-20 and C64 in that it had a special bay to fit a 1540/1541 disk drive. Below the drive bay was a metal drawer often used to store floppy disks and controllers. A circular silver sticker, featuring the Commodore "chickenhead" logo, was affixed to the face of this drawer. Included was a brown metal monitor stand that allowed cables to pass underneath. The desk was available through Canadian domestic retailers such as Eaton's and Beaver Lumber.

The desk depicted above was made so that the drawer could be inserted from either the "front" or "back". Doing this and rotating the desk 180 degrees positioned the drive bay and drawer for either left or right handed users.

Commodore also produced other desks, such as the one shown below (likely also manufactured by Commodore's Canadian branch). However, it is not known whether examples like these were made specifically for computer use, or rather for typewriters.