From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
   > "Graeme"   
     "Your Name"   
   >>> The VIC-20 *was* "the best thing since warp drive". We had one which was   
   >>> later upgraded to a C64, and then my brother bought an Amiga 500 ... and   
   >>> then Commodore was destroyed by inept and incompetent management, so we   
   >>> moved to Apple Macs.   
   >> Yeah, it was.  People forget how groundbreaking those systems were in   
   >> their day.   
   >    
   > Yep, who needs multiple gigabytes of RAM and GHz processors. We managed   
   > perfectly well with single digit MHz chips and RAM measured in kilobytes ...   
   > and many of the games were a lot more "playable" than today's almost   
   > unending "Doom" clones.  :-)   
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   >> Doesn't Kirk have a Commodore system in his apartment in Star Trek II?   
   >    
   > Kirk probably was a Commodore, in some timeline.   ;-)   
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   He had a Commodore - her name was "Trixie"   
      
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