You know what? I had completely forgotten about the Amiga. (Duhhh!) The
Amiga did make a pretty good splash, AND it carved a niche for itself in the
video processing area that even Apple couldn't penetrate. There were quite
sophisticated gadgets available for the Amiga which you couldn't use with a
MAC or a PC/AT. What's more, the "fancier" Mac's and PC's didn't make any
headway in that arena either, as demonstrated by the lack of competition
with the "gadgets" needed for some of these tasks.
There was, of course, a major difference between the earlier Commodore
products and the Amiga. A look under the hood would quickly reveal that.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Spence <ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: stepping machanism of Apple Disk ][ drive (was Re: Heatkit 51/4
floppies)
>
>
>On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
>> In all the time I was involved in the microcomputer industry, I never saw
a
>> single Commodore ad that wasn't printed in a trade publication of some
sort.
>
>What!? You mean there was a part of the world that WASN'T completely
>saturated in Commodores? What part of the world do you live in?
>
>So I guess you missed "I adore my 64", the "Sweet 16" ads, and William
>Shatner shilling for the VIC-20?
>
>Of course, I can still remember _Amiga_ ads on television. I wish I had
>had a VCR back then, because some of those ads were pretty good.
>
>"Betcha can't do that with your Mac, Jack!"
>
><snip>
>
>> Dick
>
>--
>Doug Spence
>ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca
>http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
>
Received on Tue Apr 13 1999 - 10:10:03 BST