From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: bthorn64@suddenlink.net   
   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
   On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:12:53 -0500, "Steven L."   
    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.    
      
   >It wouldn't have mattered.   
      
   I disagree. Mac is still around, so could be Amiga (which was a better   
   computer than Mac throughout the late 80s) had management not been   
   hand-tied by C64 debt and frequent course-changes over how to market   
   the product.   
      
   >No home computer manufacturer could survive back then who didn't make    
   >their peace with Microsoft and run Microsoft software.   
      
   There was no Microsoft Office back then (1985-90) just individual   
   applications, Word and Excel (Multiplan), neither of which were the   
   market leaders (WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 were much more popular   
   until Windows 3.0 took off circa 1991.). And Amiga did have   
   WordPerfect, I owned and used it.   
      
   Brian   
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