For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
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For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
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Re: For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
#2I pity those who missed out on those tech golden decades of the 80's and 90's. The very idea of email was revolutionary. Getting news on demand while others waited for newspaper deliveries or set time TV shows was thrilling.
This is probably why Weird Science is one of my favorite films, because it captures that period where imaginations ran wild. The simple video games were fine as we used our imagination to fill in the gaps.
Tech these days has long lost it's magic. The 'AI' boom tried to recreate the buzz with nonsensical claims that it has failed to deliver. It's all smoke and mirrors these days.
I think the last time I was truly wowed was when Shazam appeared. That was 23 years ago.
Re: For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
#3That is some hard hitting copy. I wonder how it performed …
Re: For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
#4We were a commodore family growing up. I got started on a Vic-20 and went through a good chuck of their offerings until doom changed the world.
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#5That is some hard hitting copy. I wonder how it performed …
It was life changing at the time. They sold something like 15 million units. Everyone was running a commodore in my neck of the woods.
Re: For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
#6Interesting that the M4 Mac Mini is the same price
Re: For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
#7Interesting to me that the Apple II+ was the only one in the comparison matrix that supported only upper case letters.
That lead me to this:
https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why...
Re: For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
#8Interesting that the M4 Mac Mini is the same price
And that's without taking interest rates into account -I think that's about $2500 in today's money.
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#9I always wondered what it would be like if Commodore had serious co processors, but the base Commodore is really too slow for anything like that. Could you imagine a Voodoo 2? I think the SNES was only about 10mhz as well and used the FX math co-processor for 3d.
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#10Commodore was such a juggernaut at the time. It was the first truly successful home computer.
It’s a shame that poor management, product fragmentation, and failure to respond to IBM/Microsoft killed the company.