On 24 Nov 2004, at 19:50, Neil Hughes wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:11:08 +0000, Stuart Bell wrote:Wasn't a major factor the advent of the IBM-compatible PC, which eventually destroyed everything but Apple?
That, and the fact it seemed to take Commodore so long to release anything when they weren't shooting themselves in the foot. I've still got my A500+ collecting dust in the cupboard and can remember when the A600 came out thinking "all they've done is shrink my old machine".
A600 was a great little machine.
It shared a lot with the A500 'Plus' (which, ISTR, was really only introduced because they ran out of chips for the A500, but weren't ready to go into full-scale A600 production), but it gained PCMCIA and internal IDE for a laptop sized hard drive.
Obviously, I really wanted an A1200 at the time, but never had enough cash for one.
Steve.
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