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Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?


Max Volume wrote:

In article <gcGdnTcGZLDio2CjXTWJhQ@comcast.com>, Bill Garber
<willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:



The C-64 couldn't touch the Coleco, because at the price they had only a
VERY poor DMP, and their infamous tape system.





DMP, I believe, is Dot Matrix Printer. ;-)



Right, and the "poor DMP and infamous tape system" sounds like a knock
on Coleco, not Commodore, except that the ADAM printer was a daisywheel
or other form of impact printer, not a dot-matrix.  So how exactly do
those two undesirable features mean the C-64 "couldn't touch" the ADAM?

Besides, I think history has shown us which was the more succesful of
the two machines.  Wait, let me rephrase that.  I think history has
shown us which ONE of the two machines was actually SUCCESSFUL.


Sorry to hijack your post, Bill, but you made a good point about the
"DMP" and I wanted to expand on it.  See, I'm not a *total* dickhead.
Well, Richard, for corresponence and school papers, a daisywheel is far superior to a DMP, esp. one as poor as Commodore offered with the C-64.
I'm not saying the C-64 was junk, not at all. Coleco simply had a great idea, at a great price, and failed to impliment it properly. They were a toy company trying to make it in the low cost home computer market (where even IBM failed - remember Junior?)
Consumer's Reports went with the Atari over CoCo, C-64, and ADAM, for two reasons: the Atari printer (1027 I think) and AtariWriter. But they did the comparision because of the ADAM. It was a new idea in that market. 

Sheesh. Lighten up a little.

Roy




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