Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!hao!boulder!sunybcs!jmpiazza From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore public relations Message-ID: <3989@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 20:15:56 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.3989 Posted: Sat Jul 11 20:15:56 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 17:01:15 EDT References: <8707110358.AA14196@unisoft.UNISOFT> Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP Reply-To: jmpiazza@gort.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 45 In article <8707110358.AA14196@unisoft.UNISOFT> doug@certes.UUCP writes: >Summary: Commodore fan club? > ... >Commodore's public relations policies in other areas however, sometimes seem >to be much less enlightened. My last posting pointed out that boondoggles >with products like LIVE, Sidecar, Transformer 1.2, Genlock, and U.S. sales >of the 500 and 2000 can be alienating. Certainly companies can have engineering >and other difficulties, but it's not smart to get a reputation for such. >And there are other issues as well... [etc., etc.] >... Apple put a lot of effort into third party programs that resulted in >an abundance of hardware and software. You buy a MacIntosh, you *naturally* >get MacWrite and MacPaint. Where have you been? They stopped doing that over a year ago. But otherwise, yes. Commodore has much room for improvement. By the way, I'm still eager for someone to enlighten me with the dirty details of what happened in Commodore's screw-up in the calculator market back in the 70's. How many people remember (or even heard about) when Commodore unleashed the killer PC Clone: the PC-10 (or whatever it's called) back in Feb(?). It has been doing fine in Europe for a few years but in the American market it's a very sad, displaced, wimpy machine. I can easily be off base as to the details -- please fell free to correct them. Hopefully those who spawned -- make that "approved" -- of this brilliant idea of "Gee! If it's doing so well in Europe, let's sell it over here in the USA!" felt the axe of Commodore's recent ... restructuring? >Perhaps I am misperceiving things, and perhaps I'm the *only* one who is? ... I wish you were ... Flip side, joe piazza --- Cogito ergo equus sum. CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260 UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!jmpiazza CS: jmpiazza@cs.buffalo.edu BI: jmpiazza@sunybcs