Re: Commodore and Apple

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

Jim Butterfield (fjb@pathcom.com) writes:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:13:46 -0700, "White Flame \(aka David Holz\)"
> <NOSPAMwhiteflame52@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>   I doubt that during the development of the
>>original Apple that they were anybody that a chip manufacturer would
>>approach about using their chips. 
> 
> Some years later, Commodore bragged that they gave Jobs and Wozniak
> their first chips.  They meant MOS Technology, of course.  And I would
> find it believable that a small manufacturer, coming late into a hard
> market, would try to sweeten their chips to developers whenever they
> found an opportunity.
> 
It depends on how many they were given.  Mos Technology may have given
away sample CPUs, despite the low single quantity price.  And they may
not have discriminated on who got them, so a hobbyist could get
one as easily as a company.  

     Michael

> Doesn't mean it really happened that way, of course.  But I find it
> curious that Commodore would otherwise admit to giving a start to a
> major competitor.  At the time, I wondered why they would say this,
> even if true; they must have been feeling very secure.
> 
> 		--Jim Butterfield
> 
> 
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