Posted By
MMS
on 2010-04-12
07:26:53
 |  Re: [eBay] War is war
Well, if it would be a 364 with numeric keypad, may worth the money... (just because it looks more serious  and surely not because of speech synthezis)
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Commodore_364_System_s1.jpg
BTW, if Commodore would use 364 style for the Plus/4 housing (the cost of extra numeric keyboard is not so high), and would focus on the spreadsheet and word processor only (Commodore Plus/2  ), and would make the memory easily expandable and available, then Plus/4 could be a success, as noone would expect a business-look computer to compete with C-64.
(though Sinclair QL from 1984 was also not a great success, despite it's advanced BASIC and OP.system and 128KB. But it also did not have numeric keypad, it confirms my comment,  (lot of SW bugs and microdrive killed it)
Do you know, that it had also shipped with 4 applications as Plus/4? just on microdrives, and from Psion. Initially it was too big (sound familiar?), only the final version (rewritten in assembly) could finally fit into the memory (80KB)).
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/doc.asp?c=199
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