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

[Max Volume <macsvolume@yahoo.com>]

In article <WMoLa.14640$Ei4.12663@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>, Sam Gillett
<samgillett@msn.com> wrote:


> The connection may have been what killed the Adam.

No, poor design killed the ADAM, pure and simple.

> Just as people chose The Atari 2600 over Intellivision(sp?).  The name
> connection.  Mattel was a _toy_ company, not an _electronics_ company.

Again, poor design (those stupid disc controllers), plus a lack of
arcade titles, which was almost the whole point of owning a video game
console -- so you could play the arcade hits at home.