Re: The Commodore 64 - 1980's Number 1 computer
winston...@yahoo.com
RobertB wrote:
> CNET TV has posted a short video listing the Top 5
> computers of the 1980's. The Commodore 64 wins out
> by being number 1! (We're number 1... we're number 1!)
> The Amiga computer comes in fifth place. To see the
> video, go to
>
> http://cnettv.cnet.com/1980s-computers/9742-1_53-50081092.html?tag=smallCarouselArea.1
>
> Truly,
> Robert Bernardo
> Fresno Commodore User Group
> http://videocam.net.au/fcug
> The Other Group of Amigoids
> http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
> Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
> http://www.sccaners.org
Math1723
<winston19842...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> TI-99 was #4! Cool!
How many of you notice that they made a mistake in the final screen,
showing the TI-99/4 instead of the TI-99/4A? Tsk tsk, if you did
not. :-)
This should probably have been called the "Top 5 Home Computers of the
1980's", back when the term "home computer" meant in contradistinction
to "microcomputers" (IBM's, Macs, etc.). Home Computers were priced
in the hundreds of dollars, whereas micros were in the thousands.
People don't use those terms today, but it was certainly an
interesting time. :-)
schmidtd
<winston19842...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> TI-99 was #4! Cool!
Our host, Tom Merritt, said he still had his. Later, he said he had
sold it to buy a C64. Which is it?
Jonathan Hoyle
To me, it sounded like he said he *decided* to sell his TI-99/4A for
the promise of getting a C-64. Then it sounded like he didn't get
it. Or perhaps he got a C-64 later, without having to sell his TI
after all. I suppose he might have had two TI-99's, but I would think
that is even more unlikely.
Golan Klinger
> Our host, Tom Merritt, said he still had his. Later, he said he had
> sold it to buy a C64. Which is it?
He also referred to himself as an Apple II user and said the Amiga could
"do up to 16 million colours in 1985". It would seem that he's as fast and
loose with the truth as he is with the facts.
--
Golan Klinger
Dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.
Math1723
> schmidtd wrote:
> > Our host, Tom Merritt, said he still had his. Later, he said he had
> > sold it to buy a C64. Which is it?
>
> He also referred to himself as an Apple II user and said the Amiga could
> "do up to 16 million colours in 1985". It would seem that he's as fast and
> loose with the truth as he is with the facts.
Referring to himself as an Apple II user doesn't seem inconsistent, as
many people had many computers at the same time back then (I know I
did).
But you are correct about the Amiga's colors. The 24-bit color
pallette (16.8 million colors) didn't arrive on the Amiga until (I
think) the Amiga 3000, which was much after 1985.
Clocky
"Math1723" <anony...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Nope, the Amiga 3000 was ECS like the later A2000's and A500's (early of
each model were OCS). Only the A1200 and A4000 Amiga computers had AGA and
both of those were released in the 90's.