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From: Sam Gillett on 21 Dec 2006 02:03 <spike1(a)freenet.co.uk> wrote ... > DanSolo <daniel.otoole(a)ucd.ie> did eloquently scribble: > >> Hardly Commodore's fault thier machine was vastly more popular! > > Only in its country of origin though. You should have checked with Germany and the Scandinavian countries before making that ridiculous statement. Not to mention places such as Australia, Japan, etc.... > Just as the spectrum was more popular in ITS country of origin. That is easy to understand, as The Queen taxed foreign competition to death. >> Sinclair did try to sell overseas you know, they just couldn't do it. > > Ah, but they DID do it. In spain and other european countries it was quite > popular, and where it wasn't sold, clones like the hobbit, scorpion and > pentagon sprang up (in the eastern block) See above, then add Canada to the list of countries where Commodore ruled. Shall we continue adding to the list? -- Best regards, Sam Gillett Change is inevitable, except from vending machines!
From: spike1 on 21 Dec 2006 04:35 Sam Gillett <samgillettnospam(a)diespammermsn.com> did eloquently scribble: >> Just as the spectrum was more popular in ITS country of origin. > That is easy to understand, as The Queen taxed foreign competition to death. The monarch hasn't taxed anything for over 100 years. >>> Sinclair did try to sell overseas you know, they just couldn't do it. >> >> Ah, but they DID do it. In spain and other european countries it was quite >> popular, and where it wasn't sold, clones like the hobbit, scorpion and >> pentagon sprang up (in the eastern block) > See above, then add Canada to the list of countries where Commodore ruled. I included canada. I didn't say USA, I said north american subcontinent. So nyerrrrr. (Or did I say that in a different post... pah, can't be arsed checking back) -- | |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack| | spike1(a)freenet.co.uk |in the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you| | |can't move, with no hope of rescue. | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)|Consider how lucky you are that life has been | | in |good to you so far... | | Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|
From: MagerValp on 21 Dec 2006 07:51 >>>>> "s" == spike1 <spike1(a)freenet.co.uk> writes: s> But with the 128, the z80 must've been crawling. Yup. It was only included as management promised CP/M compatibility, and the nasty hack that was the C64 CP/M cartridge didn't (and couldn't) work on the C128. As a side effect the C128 managed to keep compatibility with C64 cartridges, by using the Z80 as the primary CPU when powering on. This, and many more interesting stories can be found in http://www.commodorebook.com/ :) I don't suppose anyone's written a book documenting the rise and fall of Sinclair? -- ___ . . . . . + . . o _|___|_ + . + . + . Per Olofsson, arkadspelare o-o . . . o + MagerValp(a)cling.gu.se - + + . http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/
From: Duncan Snowden on 21 Dec 2006 11:29 spike1(a)freenet.co.uk wrote: > Sam Gillett <samgillettnospam(a)diespammermsn.com> did eloquently scribble: >>> Just as the spectrum was more popular in ITS country of origin. > >> That is easy to understand, as The Queen taxed foreign competition to death. > > The monarch hasn't taxed anything for over 100 years. Make that 300. Civil War, Glorious Revolution, 17th Century. (I'm strongly against all the casual anti-Americanism that's around these days, but even I have to wonder just how dumb the Yanks were when they addressed the Declaration of Independence to the King, a hundred years after the monarch ceased to have any responsibility for taxation, legislation and the deployment of troops. Sure, communications were a bit slower in those days, but come *on*...) -- Duncan Snowden.
From: Duncan Snowden on 21 Dec 2006 11:31
MagerValp wrote: > This, and many more interesting stories can be found > in http://www.commodorebook.com/ :) > > I don't suppose anyone's written a book documenting the rise and fall > of Sinclair? No need. Sinclair's still around. http://www.sinclair-research.co.uk :-P -- Duncan Snowden. |