Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

[MagerValp <cl3polof@cling.gu.se>]

>>>>> "R" == Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> writes:

MV> What? The Amiga and Atari ruled the home computer market during
MV> the late 80s and early 90s.

R> Unfortunately, no. Things would have been a good deal more
R> interesting had either machine captured a big chunk of the home
R> market; but, it never happened.

Think world, not US. The US market was a bit more fragmented, and
places like Japan always went their own way.
  So what did American home users own in the late 80s? Europe was
pretty much saturated with Amigas and Ataris, and the PC didn't become
a hit until the 386 with VGA became affordable, and then we're well
into the 90s.

R> Although Amiga was a better computer than ST, it was a much bigger
R> mistake. By 1985 there weren't all that many Atari users; but,
R> Commodore had a chance to easily move many thousands of C64 users
R> up to any new 65xxx-based 'Super C64' it might introduce. Instead,
R> Commodore came out with a totally alien 'color Mac'.

The A1000 wasn't really a home computer, it was far too expensive for
that. A500 won a lot of users over though. I don't have the numbers
here, but the A500 alone sold in millions of units.

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