C64 question

Cameron Kaiser wrote: It was once said that of Commodore was selling sushi, they'd call it "cold, raw, dead fish." But Marketing aside, there _were_ a bunch of stupid engineering decisions, well documented by R.J. Mikal in his "Commodore Deathbed Vigil" tape. It didn't matter who was at the helm, many engineering decisions were driven by stock on hand to deplete remnants of previous products rather than sell off the assets at a loss and use more modern (and expensive) components. The two that come to mind were the 2114s in the VIC-20 (they apparently had metric tons of them left-over from the PETs - Jack Tramiel said he didn't care how much memory the new computer had, as long as they used up those chips), and the case for the A4000 (*after* the motherboard was finished Medhi Ali (the LBF) told the engineers to redesign it to fit the warehouse of PC cases they had from a former Intel-based product, delaying the launch *substantially*) It was either one or two years before they went bankrupt that they broke the Billion Dollar mark in sales. They ended $500M in the hole. There was a lot of stupidity going on behind the scenes. -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/