From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: bthorn64@suddenlink.net   
   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
   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.   
      
   Brian   
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