Re: Commodore and Apple

[Jim Butterfield <fjb@pathcom.com>]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:13:46 -0700, "White Flame \(aka David Holz\)"
<NOSPAMwhiteflame52@yahoo.com> wrote:

>   I doubt that during the development of the
>original Apple that they were anybody that a chip manufacturer would
>approach about using their chips. 

Some years later, Commodore bragged that they gave Jobs and Wozniak
their first chips.  They meant MOS Technology, of course.  And I would
find it believable that a small manufacturer, coming late into a hard
market, would try to sweeten their chips to developers whenever they
found an opportunity.

Doesn't mean it really happened that way, of course.  But I find it
curious that Commodore would otherwise admit to giving a start to a
major competitor.  At the time, I wondered why they would say this,
even if true; they must have been feeling very secure.

		--Jim Butterfield


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