Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

["Charles A. Plater" <ab3189@wayne.edu>]

In article <3770ABAD.54F93C54@earthlink.net> , sheercon@earthlink.net  
wrote:

> I was "there" when the first Apple's came onto the market; although I was only
> about 10. I went to school nearby and they donated some computers to our
school
> - I used to play Oregon trail and a few other games on them. I wanted an Apple
> but they were too expensive so I ended up with a Commodore Vic-20 a few years
> later. Were no mentions made of Commodore in the movie? At their peak they
were
> selling 10 times more computers than Apple was.

This is probably due to the fact that Apple never considred Commodore as a
competitor.  As an Apple ][ user, neither did I.  Freinds had Commodores,
but they were bland in comparison to my //c.

When Jobs was in control the first time, he only considred IBM as a
competitor.  If he had only realized that Microsoft was the one they needed
to worry about.

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