From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
   Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   > In article <7aadnQNt_fx_gJXWnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@earthlink.com>,   
   >  "Steven L."  wrote:   
   >    
   >> 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.   
   >> Yep.  I had an Amiga 2000.  At the time, it was far ahead of either Mac    
   >> or PC.   
   >>   
   >> But Commodore management wasn't what destroyed the Amiga (though that    
   >> factor certainly didn't help).  It was doomed to fail, in the face of a    
   >> flood of very cheap PC clones, some of which could be put together by    
   >> hackers themselves (and hackers had been a main market of the Amiga).   
   >>   
   >> When Microsoft Windows, with the tons of applications for it, started    
   >> appearing on all those cheap PC clones, the Amiga was doomed.   
   >>   
   >> The only reason Mac survives, is that it made its peace with Microsoft    
   >> and runs Microsoft Office.   
   >    
   > Uh, well, no.  It did, but that's hardly the only reason it survives.   
      
   The Mac was on the verge of death before it came up with the desktop    
   publishing gimmick.   
      
   Once Microsoft Windows 95 shipped, Mac lost its desktop publishing niche.   
      
   Sadly, firms like NewTek (which first developed desktop video production    
   for the Amiga) are now developing desktop video tools for the PC.   
      
      
      
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   Steven L.   
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