From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
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   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
      
   "Brian Thorn"  wrote in message   
   news:7lqeg5d826td8m4i5oq9v92rjtlc4qjnil@4ax.com...   
   > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:45:26 -0800 (PST), Graeme    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >On Nov 20, 12:04 am, "Your Name"  wrote:   
   > >> 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.   
   >   
   > VIC-20 and Commodore 64 were decent enough, but their main virtue was   
   > their price tag. Commodore dumped them on the market at very close to   
   > a loss, launching a price war that competitors (Radio Shack, Apple,   
   > Texas Instruments...) were unwilling to wage, leaving Commodore   
   > dominating the home computer market of the early 80s. Of course, it   
   > also left Commodore on weak financial ground where they were never   
   > able to take full advantage of the truly groundbreaking Amiga in the   
   > second half of the 80s.   
      
   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.   :-(   
      
      
      
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