XPost: comp.sys.cbm, rec.games.video.classic   
   From: starsabre@net.att   
      
   In article <471b6f8a$0$741$3a628fcd@textreader.nntp.hccnet.nl>,   
    Patrick de Zeester  wrote:   
      
   > > I was active in that first great wave, and while the PET had a tangible   
   > > presence, it was a minor player.  The TRS-80 family and the Apple ][   
   > > family were the real forces to be reckoned with.  If the PET had been   
   > > such a powerhouse, the C=64 would have been part of that family, instead   
   > > of being its own standalone powerhouse that came on after the Vic-20   
   > > failed to make the inroads C= wanted.  And Tramiel didn't like the   
   > > direction the C=64 was taking Commodore, which lead to his ultimate   
   > > ousting.   
   >   
   > I can only wonder where you get your information from...   
      
   I was a member of the then largest computer club for high school age   
   students in the St. Louis area, the Forsythe Computers Computer Club.  I   
   had access to Apple, Osborne, Heath and for a short time C= PETs.  The   
   PET line was dropped due to lack of sales.  All the computer mags I read   
   focused very little on PETs, the computer shows I got to go on club   
   "field trips" to Chicago and Pensylvania had almost no pressence of   
   PETs, but Apples and Atari 800's were very present.  The last of these   
   shows I attended had only one Vic-20, looking sad and unimpressive at   
   its lone booth.   
      
   Here in the Midwest, I saw very little evidence of any major presence of   
   Commodore.  It wasn't until the retail push of the Vic-20 that the name   
   took on any significance in the arenas I followed, and I tried to keep   
   my resources wide back then, long before the advent of the internet, and   
   before the dawn of BBS networks.   
      
   jt   
      
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