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IRA Velinsky – Commodore's Industrial Designer

Hacker News | Nov 7, 2026 | erickhill

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Nowhere is this more evident than in the Commodore CBM-II series. His final project at Commodore was the Commodore 900 (aka Z-Machine) which was a high end UNIX workstation. However, the industrial design Velinsky created for the 900 was so superior that Commodore essentially recycled the look for the Amiga 2000.

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