Commodore 101

The Commodore 101 was a Educational Computer released in Public Schools and Monasteries in 1985.

History
The Commodore 101 was made for two reasons but it could be mostly one reason that when schools tried to use something like A Commodore 64 in their Computer Lab they were stolen so they went with Commodores other competitors like Apple, So in 1984 work on Project Tuition began to design a computer that could win over school districts, Project Tuition would use the same molds as the Commodore 64 but replacing the F1 Key F2 Key etc. with Help, Complete, Yes and No Keys also the computer was designed to be much heavier to prevent stealing and they removed the cartridge and user ports on the back leaving just the connection ports, So in Mid 1985 the computer was complete it was originally called the Tuition 64 as a reference but was soon renamed to the Commodore 101 as the number 101 is usually related to learning, It is unknown how much the system costed to school districts but according to one former administrator he said that they had "paid for it for a lot cheaper than we expected" which seems to suggest that Commodore was pricing the 101 lower than the other computers that this school district had paid for, Anyways the Commodore 101 was a success and despite the fact that there is no official record of how many units were sold according to that next years sales report the 101 was "selling higher than expected" according to the report, The Commodore 101 had a built in operating system named Elementary Basic that despite the name doesn't have a built in Basic Program and instead had Four "Classes" which were Basic Typing, Basic Geography, Basic History and Basic Science.

Discovery and Legacy
Despite the fact it sold well not a lot of students remembered it as the Commodore 101 since it used the same design as the Commodore 64 most people just thought it was a Commodore 64 and not something like a different computer, That was until Gale Helmer better known online as the Classic Junkie while going to a Yard Sale hosted by a school he used to attend when he found in a area labeled "Old Computer Equipment" he found an old Commodore 101 computer sitting for a price of 15 Dollars, So after taking a picture he decided to buy it because he remembered it from when he was kid although he was confused that it said Commodore 101 instead from what he remembered as the Commodore 64 but he bought the device anyway, And after examining it and after some research he realized that it was a different computer all together and would soon publish a video to his Vidspace Channel about this discovery, The Video got a lot of attention and overall gained new interest in the product. Despite being not a Commodore 64 the Commodore 101 has gained a loyal and nostalgic following with people reminiscing and nostalgically looking back on it as the Early Days of the Computer Lab.