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From: Andreas Kohlbach on 15 Jan 2010 23:12 Paashaas wrote on 15. January 2010: > > Op 15-1-2010 3:03, Andreas Kohlbach schreef: > >> Also why wasn't the Atari XL and ST not mention. Did they perform so >> badly that they fell off the top 5? At least in Germany there was a "war" >> going on between Commodore (C64, later Amiga) and Atari (XL and ST later) >> users of who has the larger d***. > > Cool, a guessing game... disk? Of course. -- Andreas My Commodore 64 classic game music page at http://freenet-homepage.de/ankman/sid.html
From: Sean Huxter on 17 Jan 2010 12:59 "Colin" <colmac1962(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:2uI3n.1327$pv.1323(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > > > "jonny" <jonny(a)no-email.org> wrote in message > news:hinf9c$ifa$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> On 14/01/2010 7:50am, RobertB wrote: >>> CNET TV has posted a short video listing the Top 5 >>> computers of the 1980's. The Commodore 64 wins out >>> by being number 1! (We're number 1... we're number 1!) >>> The Amiga computer comes in fifth place. To see the >>> video, go to >>> >>> http://cnettv.cnet.com/1980s-computers/9742-1_53-50081092.html?tag=smallCarouselArea.1 >>> >>> Truly, >>> Robert Bernardo >>> Fresno Commodore User Group >>> http://videocam.net.au/fcug >>> The Other Group of Amigoids >>> http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/ >>> Southern California Commodore& Amiga Network >>> http://www.sccaners.org >> >> Yep, 30 million of those babies were sold around the world, but sales of >> the Amiga, especially in the US, were a travesty, although it did very >> well in Europe (UK and Germany) and Australia. >> >> Why was the Amiga so ignored in the US? > > That`s a sort of dumb question! > They had enough typewriters already. Heh. You're funny... (looking!) The Amiga was a breakthrough, and so revolutionarily different from other computers that it likely scared a lot of people. I know anyone I knew with an Amiga had MY envy. I still had my C64, and I upgraded to a C128, which I still love, but man, I was seriously envious of Amiga owners, I could never have afforded one, as a poor college student who scraped enough money to get his C128. Getting an Amiga meant not only shelling out the money for the computer, but for a new monitor (my 1702 would not work with it) and I couldn't afford both. But man, I sure wanted to. The colors alone made me envious, as I was a computer artist at the time. And its operating system was YEARS beyond anything else out there. I think the Conservative mindset of most Americans is why the Amiga never really took off here. In Canada it did rather well, certainly among MY friends and people I knew with computers. Sean.
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