Posted By
Litwr
on 2021-01-10
05:27:48
|  Re: C264 Series Market Failure in Retrospect
@MMS excuse me but there is no logic in actions to keep older C64 engineers while firing expert Amiga engineers. And what those "too experienced" engineers did since 1982? Even the C128 was made by Bil Herd without them.
The C65 was a long awaited upgrade to the old C64, it could have some success like the Commodore Joystick in the late 90s.
I know that anecdote about a Tandy man and a stupid Commodore man around the Commodore LCD but it is just an anecdote. Commodore just was not allowed to bother IBM, Tandy or Apple... Indeed only Irving Gould knew all the picture.
Commodore didn't support memory upgrades for the C16/C116 exactly for the same reason, their management didn't allow such things. They wanted just to meat one little cow. You know any man who knows a bit about soldering can easily upgrade C16/116 to 64 KB.
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IMHO Jack Tramiel would never start the Commodore PC. The Amiga was much better than the IBM PC XT and could compete with the first IBM AT. He didn't make the IBM PC compatible computers in Atari, he was quite a personality like Apple top managers.
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