Subj : Re: ATARI and Spectrum are rubbish - The C64 is the king of home-comput
To   : Andreas Kohlbach
From : Shaun Bebbington
Date : Sun May 13 2018 15:14:55

On Sunday, 13 May 2018 23:01:42 UTC+1, Andreas Kohlbach  wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2018 10:01:40 -0700 (PDT), Shaun Bebbington wrote:
> >
> >> In the UK, the Commodore C64 was more expensive than other machines,
> > so many chose Sinclairs, though it has a good Wurst rating because of
> > it's sausage-feeling keyboard (at least on the runner keys models).
> >
> > rubber*
>
> Chicklet. ;-)
>
> The Sinclair were only successful because of the price. If you look at
> the markets outside the UK the C64 had the biggest market share, even
> outperforming the IBM PC for some time.
>
> <http://ankman.de/market_1984.jpg> is from what the 8BitGuy on Youtube
> provided for the 8Bit computer market in 1984 for the US. So figures from
> the UK and other markets are ignored.
> --
> Andreas
>
> My random toughts and comments
> https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/

The grass is always greener on the other side; especially due to the crude RGB 
palette of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

Regards,

Shaun.

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