11 Apr
2012
11 Apr
'12
1:20 p.m.
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Brent Hilpert wrote:
I never followed the details of the intertwined
Commodore/Atari
business history, but the part I've never really heard discussed much
is how Commodore successfully transitioned from calculators to
personal computers. Calculator manufactures were dropping like flies
in the mid-70's as calculators became a low-cost commodity business,
Commodore was one of the few that managed to migrate to and thrive in
a new business and market. Strikes me it took some astuteness to
accomplish that.
After experiencing the early pocket calculators in the early 1970s, then
the HPs, and then the price decline, I bought the first one that I could
get for <$5 (1977?). It was a Commodore.
I guess that we'll have to wait, and buy the book to hear what the
Atari/Commodore story was.