Commodores "TED" machines

Way back in the late 1980s when I worked part time at an Amiga dealer, I got an abandoned Plus/4 from the junk pile in the repair shop and occasionally used it as a doorstop. It didn't work very well for that purpose, because it's not especially heavy. :) I don't know if I still have it, but if I ever run across it then I'll see if I can bring it back to life. I didn't respect it much back then, but now it would be an interesting little piece of history. It's funny how we tended to divide into cliques back then, convinced that "our" machine is infinitely better than the other brand's piece of worthless junk... not realizing that they often had the exact same CPU inside. I cut my teeth on a TRS-80 Color Computer, so naturally, I thought those were special. Now I realize that they had an arguably better processor than many of the contemporaries, yet those other machines had their own good features such as better graphics and/or sound hardware, more than one expansion slot, good keyboards, etc. Now, they're all good and bad in their own individual ways, and I like playing with and learning about all of them! Except for the PCs. I still don't like those. :) -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net> http://www.nf6x.net/