23 Apr
2002
23 Apr
'02
5:01 a.m.
--- Bryan Pope <bpope(a)wordstock.com> wrote:
I don't understand how you can call the Commodore
64 a "video toy".
I certainly don't. For several years, it was the source of my paycheck.
My C64 was used for games, but it was also used to do
spreadsheets and
word processing.
I didn't do
Now compare the cost of the 64 to a PC/AT at the
time...
More like the original PC - both came out about the same time - 1982.
The C-64 was $595 (no disk), the original PC was $2880, 64KB of RAM
and, also, no disk. The PC-AT came out several years later with a
standard configuration price (including hard disk) of $5K.
ISTR it took several years until the PC (and descendents) beat the C-64 in
total sales in dollars and years after that until it passed in total
units sold (the C-64 had a run of about 17 million, IIRC).
And I believe that the C64 graphics kicked the
PC/AT's ass... ;)
Up until EGA, that was true.
But it wasn't the graphics that did it - 80 column text was important
to the PC, as was compatbility between home and work.
-ethan
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