Sam Gillett wrote:
Exegete wrote ...2. TI was losing millions already. The Coleco announcement was merely the "final straw", there was no way TI could put together a bundle like Coleco did at anywhere near $600 and still make money.Hmm.. well, we Commodore users surely thank God daily for Coleco's mercy on us during that time.The C-64 couldn't touch the Coleco, because at the price they had only a VERY poor DMP, and their infamous tape system.The C64 does not have a poor DMP, whatever a DMP is.
Dot Matrix printer. And they did at that time.Remember, the bundle was, CPU, storage system, printer, and WP software suitable for letters, and school papers.
If it has anything to
do with display, the VIC (Video Interface Chip) in the C64 was the most advanced display processor available in a low cost home computer in 1983. As for the tape system, at least it worked in a reliable fashion. And, for the $600 price tag you mentioned for the Coleco, by 1984 you could get a C64 and a disk drive.And it wasn't Coleco's "mercy", it was the toy company's incompetence in selling such a complex, expensive machine. By the time the bugs were worked out, no one would touch the machine. That, and the video game/home computer shake out caused Coleco to pull the machine in January 1985, less than 18 months after going on the market.Coleco just couldn't compete with Commodore I guess. The C64 was alive and well for many years after that.
You guessed wrong.How many people will buy a computer when they hear that the machine destroys it's storage? The major weakness with the ADAM in the fall of 1983 was that the high speed tape system wasn't debugged yet. It would sometimes turn both spindles in opposite directions (not good!) or lose blocks, so that the 256K tapes could quickly be 128K tapes, etc. All the bugs were worked out, disk drives were released as well as CP/M (the ADAM used a Z-80 at 3.56 mhz) software other than games was being release, but the machine had earned a bad rep, because management wouldn't listen to the engineers.
Roy
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