Subj : Really! lol
To   : Owen Evers
From : Dave Drum
Date : Thu Feb 03 2022 11:18 am

-=> Owen Evers wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> First store-bought mass market 'puter was a TRaSh-80 Model I. Followed
 DD> by a PET 4032 then a PET 8032, CommodeDoor 64, an Amiga 2000 and after
 DD> Gould and Ali did in Commodore, an original IBM-PC.

 OE> wow forgot all about the Tandy, nuf said there
 OE> I also went down the Amiga path, loved my 500. always
 OE> wanted a 1200 but never happened (appart from in winUAE)
 OE> lol.

My last Amiga was a 4000 - but, dumb-ass me hot swapped a printer and 
blew the wave-soldered/surface mounted CIA chips. And then it was good
for use as a door-stop. The old 'Miggus had socket mounted CIAs - and
yes, I changed more than one of them.  Bv)>

 DD> ... Amiga made it possible. Commodore made it dead.

 OE> some very bad business choices by Commodore..the 600 for eg.
 OE> my first BBS was on my 500 running 4dBBS then Transamiga in the hay
 OE> day.

They were both finance guys, not confuser folks. There was an inquiry
into Medhi Ali short-selling his own company on the stock exchanges.
He and Gould made money off Commode Door on the way up - and even more
on the way down.
 

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