Captain Nemo wrote:
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You're right Eichenlaub, PC's have come on a long way since the days of the Amiga 500. However, at the time the Amiga 500 was the better machine compared to the PC, with a superior OS and graphics. It's a pity Commodore didn't market the Amiga line better and allow third parties to manufacture compatibles and supply the machine with an inbuilt hard drive (all that floppy disk swapping used to drive me mad). If this had happened, who knows, it might not be an IBM clone sitting on most desks today but an Amiga clone.
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I feel that pain Nemo...I still discuss that with my group of former Commodore buddies. Soon I shall order a copy of "On the edge: the rise and fall of Commodore" to read the full story of that wonderful era. I can't remember how many times I've vainlessly tried to explain why an Amiga was the better machine. Too few people got to know it, they were so used to having a pc at home.
When Amiga was completely out of the market somewhere in 1997-98, the president of Apple stated in an interview that he was scared witless of the Amiga. He said that computer was offering better performance, graphics, sound capabilities for less than half the price of pc/Apple computers... He was relieved to find Commodore's obsolete marketing strategy for the Amiga that had to "market itself".
But we know what it was like.
Kind regards,
Eichenlaub