Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

["Pockets" <pockets@cix.co.uk>]

"Andy Cadley" <ac@sys.uea.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Rubywand wrote:
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> That's a pretty bizarre claim if ever I head one. In the mid 80's you'd
> have been hard pressed to find anyone who honestly believed the PC would
> be the all-conquering platform of choice that it is today.
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> And had Commodore had the faintest idea of how to market and develop the
> Amiga properly it probably never would have been...
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> AndyC
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The PC was never a serious contender in the home untill the 386 DX chip,
Sound Blaster sound card and VGA graphics became affordable. Approximatly
1992. Untill then, if you wanted a home machine, you tended to buy initaly
an ST, later an Amiga, well round here anyway. STs seemed to dissapear from
the shops around 1990 and Amiga became the machine of desire. The AGA was a
shot in the arm for the amiga which seemed to set it on a path to compete
with the up and comming 486s and Macs, then it all came to a bone jarring
crunch with commodores collapse. Of course the irony was that the Amiga was
an Atari project (same team responsible for the 800) and the ST was a
commodore project and all swapped whith the Traimels(<SFX> SPIT
</SFX> )moving company.

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