Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>]

In article <k2gzoa29vhs.fsf@legolas.mdh.se>, dal95acn@mds.mdh.se (Carlsson,
Anders) wrote:

> Jason <tmr@c64.org> writes:
>
>> Commodore didn't abandon the C64 until the 1990s,
>
> I found an Amiga Format '94 issue at home, which reported the C64
> was about to be dropped by 1994. Their reason for doing it was the
> 1541 (and similar) drives had become more expensive to produce than
> they could sell it for, and a C64 without a disk drive didn't have
> much of a market. The actual computer unit could still be sold for
> ~$50 with profit claims AF.
>
> --
> Anders Carlsson

Remember the Commodore 64 Game System? It was basically a C64 without a
keyboard. Just a ROM cartridge slot and joysticks.

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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

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