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   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
      
   "Brian Thorn"  wrote in message   
   news:4kogg5tkhndigus3sgmgb4pcd1hrse46rd@4ax.com...   
   > 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.   
      
   Technically the Amiga does still exist today, but only as an operating   
   system and a Windows PC emulator kept alive by a small bunch of fans.   
      
   The "Commodore" name is also still aorund, but has travelled through a few   
   owners with none of them ever doing anything (last time I read some company   
   was planning to re-use the name for a TV set-top box along the lines of   
   TiVo).   
      
   Even the C64 was around longer than the Commodore company, and a bit like   
   the VW Beetle, the C64 was being made and sold in some countries until   
   fairly recently, and is still sold as a Windows PC emulation package as well   
   as a plug-in TV games console with built-in games.   
      
      
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