Posted By
RobertB
on 2016-09-21
02:36:46
|  Re: What would I do differently in the Plus/4
JamesD wrote:
> Commodore certainly would have had to pursue the US education market to really attack the Apple II on it's own turf. Getting a foothold in that market would be worth the investment in the long run.
Just to clear up a misconception... CBM did have a foothold in the education market. The Commodore PET was used in school districts in and around the San Francisco area and the Portland, Oregon area (just two examples). In 1982, this was followed by the Commodore Educator 64 (a.k.a. PET 64) which was a C64 board in a PET-style all-in-one case. These big-box computers were favored by educators, because they were considered heavy-duty and not easily stolen as would be the smaller, keyboard-style computers, like the VIC-20, C64, and Plus/4.
Writing from Sydney, Australia,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
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