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Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was cool!
From: Andy Cadley <ac@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:54:42 +0100
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Rubywand wrote:

>      Commodore and Atari "lost the plot" in 1985 when they abandoned their 65xx
> machine user bases. Neither the ST nor the Amiga was ever serious competition
> for PC.

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.

And had Commodore had the faintest idea of how to market and develop the
Amiga properly it probably never would have been...

AndyC

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