Subj : Re: Commodore Computers
To   : Dr. What
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Apr 29 2022 09:26:35

  Re: Re: Commodore Computers
  By: Dr. What to Nightfox on Sat Apr 30 2022 12:14 am

 Ni>> I don't remember how the Amiga was advertised where I live.  But to
 Ni>> me it looked like another computer (I always thought their beige-box
 Ni>> appearance was fairly similar to IBM PC compatibles).

 DW> I think that was just the late 80's-early 90's thing. The newer versions
 DW> of the C64 came in a slim, beige case as did the C128. As well as many in
 DW> the IBM-PC market.

 DW> I think that beige was just the new standard across the industry.

Well there were other home computers that looked different from that, such as the Commodore 64 (all built into a keyboard, more of a brownish color), Timex Sinclair (similarly, had the keyboard built in and they were silver, black, or perhaps other colors), etc..  I've also heard about the Atari 400 home computer, which was beige, but the way it looked, I always thought it looked more like a game machine than a computer (I think it ran its software from cartridges, for instance).

 DW> The Amiga wasn't a bad machine, but it suffered from poor marketing and it
 DW> was hampered by the IBM-PC taking over the market.

I often thought there were products that were technically superior that suffered from poor marketing.  OS/2 was another - I thought OS/2 was a better OS than Windows, but IBM failed to market it well enough.  Also, Microsoft had some tactics that I think were a bit shady, in pushing competetors out of the market.

Nightfox
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