John Guillory -> Greg Goodwin wrote:
 JG> רת. Regarding : Commodore PC .תר
 JG> רת. Reply Requested? Yes, Please Reply. .תר

 JG> +--רת. Greg Goodwin whispered this to John Guillory...
 JG> | I think all and all the Commodore (both C-64 and Amiga) were decent
 JG> computers
 JG> | I have a few.  :)
 JG> +--.תר Out of the stillness, john guillory said this...

 JG> (I know old post), but was just thinking about what you said...  Yes, I
 JG> agree
 JG> with you in that Commodore Computers where decent.  For the most part,
 JG> all of
 JG> them...

 JG> 1. VIC-20 -- Very Expandable, nice games, cheap as heck even in its own
 JG> time,
 JG>              easy to get started out (can start off with a tape drive,
 JG> get a
 JG>              disk drive, add a modem, add another disk drive, upgrade to
 JG> the
 JG>              Commodore 64.....

That is true.  When you are done you do have a C-64.  :)


 JG> 2. C64 --    Probably more languages available for the Commodore 64 than
 JG> any
 JG>              other computer system, but then again in the time folks
 JG> learned
 JG>              all languages to be able to learn computer languages.... Many
 JG>              users learned assembly language and knew lots about every
 JG> inner
 JG>              memory location of their Commodore 64!
 JG> 3. C128/128D -- CP/M mode -- Not popular in its time, 128 mode, again
 JG> not that
 JG>                 popular in its time... GEOS128/GEOS64, 64 mode .... Very
 JG>                 very popular, had the C128d been continued, it could
 JG> have been
 JG>                 the Macintosh of today.  Who knows, Bill gates might not
 JG> have
 JG>                 gotten where he is today.....

Huh.. did they have a GUI at some point?



 JG> 4. C64c   -- O.k. We're back-stepping a bit.... Going back to the C64
 JG> with a
 JG>              high-tech look and a cooler design... About the only good is
 JG>              it was cheaper than the 128 and basically they stopped selling
 JG>              the original c64's....  Otherwise the same as #2

Never heard of this.  What was it?



 JG> Various Amiga's

 JG>      Amiga sported very impressive graphics, a nice GUI Operating system,
 JG> bootable Operating system allowed you to upgrade to newer operating
 JG> systems.
 JG> Amiga folks loved to brag about the power of the "Amiga",
yet when you look
 JG> at the specs on an Amiga they allways say "Yeah but that's a 500... It's
 JG> crap...."  O.k. So you don't consider the 500 an
"Amiga", we then look
 JG> at the
 JG> high-end Amiga systems they want to brag about and consider the price....
 JG> "But you claimed you can get an Amiga that can do all this for
$___" then
 JG> they reply "The only Amiga you can get for that price is the 500, used,
 JG> which
 JG> no one wants..."  Oh, o.k. so the Amiga is very pricey.... ;-)
 Just funny
 JG> how Amiga owners like to pick and choose modals to compare from... They
 JG> want
 JG> to choose the cheapest Amiga to quote prices from, pick the most expensive
 JG> Amiga to quote the graphics specs from and the cpu specs, etc...


Amiga truly is an aquired taste.   It's capible, and in the right hands
flexible, but not for the common wallets.

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