C64 question

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Thu Feb 8 01:23:57 2001

> Sure the drives sucked rocks(!!!), and their marketing was even worse.
> I think in all the years Commodore existed, I saw ONE TV ad, and it
> was aiming the Amiga for the business and "serious application"
> market. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!!!

Huh? Do you not remember the ads in Newsweek for the 64 and vicmodems, showing
how great telecomputing was, or the TV add with the classical music playing
on the 64 in the background?

>
> -- Ross
>
>
>
> >
> > Since my Power Mac 7300's HD had a serious mechanical failure this morning,
> > I am now back on the 128D's console. Feels good to have " on SHIFT-2 ...
> > doesn't feel good to realise that the $130 I paid for that drive is wasted,
> > along with 4MB of irreplaceable data (the CD-RW burner I bought for backups
> > ironically will arrive sometime next week).
> >
> > --
> > ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
> > Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu
> > -- If G. B. Shaw were a surrealist, he'd be writing plays about ghoti. --------
>


-- 
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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