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   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
   "Brian Thorn"  wrote in message   
   news:508mg5tf0kl3960ee37qbhdn4dmrg4pb97@4ax.com...   
   > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:09:59 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Commodore's inept management never quite knew what to do with the Amiga   
   >>> ...   
   >>> one day it was a home games machine, the next it was a video editing   
   >>> station, the next it was a business computer, and then back to being a   
   >>> games   
   >>> computer. They kept changing their tiny minds until it was far too late.   
   >>> It's ironic that the logo often associated with the Amiga was a 3D   
   >>> graphic   
   >>> ball, because the management certainly dropped it.   
   >>   
   >>But then how do you explain Jack Tramiel failing to make the Atari ST   
   >>a success?   
   >   
   > Commodore was a big name in computers, selling the hugely successful   
   > Commodore 64. Atari was known primarily as a game system and never was   
   > taken seriously by computer hobbyists, fairly or not. Atari was trying   
   > to graduate from game consoles to the home computer market already   
   > dominated by Commodore. The home computer market was Commodore's to   
   > lose, and they lost it.   
      
   Atari also turned down the Amiga, which originally was a games console.   
   Commodore picked up the Amiga, and then couldn't decide what to do with it -   
   which included making a games console version. Of course, Atari then later   
   created their own games console to compete.   
      
      
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