Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Apr 23 12:16:16 2002

I didn't make any decisions about the Commodore 64. My kids, and maybe their
mom, did. I didn't have any of them around here, except when they'd brought
theirs, which they only did once or twice. Commodore picked the market they
played in with their packaging and features.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Pope" <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)


> And thusly Richard Erlacher spake:
> >
> > Well, what I know is that my kids had a C64 before they were both in
> > elementary school and had outgrown it by the time they were 10. I didn't
make
> > that choice, having been divorced from their mother, but it was apparent
to
> > her that they needed something more capable. They had PC/AT's when they
were
> > 10. Those were not great, but at least they were adequate. Frankly, if
one
> > considers the competition, the Commodore people picked the video toy
market to
> > play in rather than the home computer market, because they couldn't
compete
> > with Apple and Radio Shack, though they attempted to compete with RS'
low-end.
> > That low-end, e.g. COCO wasn't much to compete with. All these were
capable
> > if you were determined to make them into what they weren't, but if you
wanted
> > a home computer, you were better off buying something that was alread a
> > computer.
> >
>
> I don't understand how you can call the Commodore 64 a "video toy". My C64
> was used for games, but it was also used to do spreadsheets and word
> processing. Now compare the cost of the 64 to a PC/AT at the time. And if
it
> wasn't for this "video toy", I would not be where I am today. (Actually, I
> started with the PET, but that is pretty close to a 64)
>
> And I believe that the C64 graphics kicked the PC/AT's ass... ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bryan
>
>
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