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to: Andreas Kohlbach
from: Shaun Bebbington
date: 2018-05-13 03:51:18
subject: Re: ATARI and Spectrum are rubbish - The C64 is the king of home-comput

On Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:32:33 UTC+1, Andreas Kohlbach  wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2018 13:46:26 -0700 (PDT), Shaun Bebbington wrote:
> >
> > The Commodore C64 is the Wurst computer. The VIC-20 is the most
Ficken computer.
>
> I disagree. Well being a Commodore 64 user.

Technically, the Commodore C64 did shades of brown.

>
> I could now raise the question, what was the king of the 8bit computers
> of the early 80s. I suppose it was the Commodore 64 by outperforming any
> competitor in the sheer numbers of units sold. Suppose the Atari 8bit
> line came second. There might even have been better computers. But they
> were either too expensive or didn't had the distribution network to make
> an impact. I think the Memotech MTX
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memotech_MTX> could had taken the crown,
> but came too late (1983) and had financial problems leading to their demise.
> --
> Andreas

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).

> My random toughts and comments
> https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/

Regards,

Shaun

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