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Subject: Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?
From: Peter Thomas <see-my-sig@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:30:52 +0100
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On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 01:01:20 -0500, Exegete
<millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:

>I loved it. It was slow - compared to an IBM disk drive. From what I've 
>seen of Commodore disk drives, well.... I never had ANY problem with 
>mine. But all the ADAM's I've ever seen had the warning not to leave the 
>tapes on top of a color TV, or it would be erased. Perhaps, or perhaps 
>that was a "cover" for tapes that did go bad.

Leaving *any* kind of magnetic storage on top of a television is never
a good thing. I'm not sure why Coleco specified a colour television
either. All TVs, to my knowledge, play around with magnetic fields,
and can damage magnetic media.

>> After that how could anyone take a game consoles "computer add on"
>> seriously?
>I've wondered it that's why neither Sony nor Nintendo ever released 
>add-ons that would make their game systems into full computers.

There's a keyboard for the PS2, as well as hard-drive coming soon.

I would bring up Sega's Dreamcast, but that doesn't exactly strengthen
my case :)

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