Re: The Apple 2 is rubbish !!!

["Sam Gillett" <samgillettnospam@diespammermsn.com>]

"Robert Newson" wrote ...

> Sam Gillett wrote:
>
> ...
>> As a promotional gimmick, Commodore offered a $100 rebate to anyone
>> offering any computer or game console as a trade in when buying a C64.
>
> Acorn did something similar with one of their machines (the Archimedes
> possibly?) giving a set trade-in price regardless of state of traded
> computer...the company I was working for at the time was getting all sorts
> of machines for the trade-in, including a ZX80; they were just smashed up
> and binned.  [I only found out about the ZX80 after it had been destroyed
> 8-( ]

Except for the few machines that the engineering department was using as
doorstops, Commodore donated the rest to charity.  I would guess that those
in working condition were sold through the charities outlet stores, and the
rest deposited in landfills to be smashed to pieces by the tracks on
bulldozers.
-- 
Best regards,

Sam Gillett

Change is inevitable,
except from vending machines!