XPost: comp.sys.cbm, rec.games.video.classic   
   From: payton@paytonnospambyrd.com   
      
   "jt august"  wrote in message news:starsabre-   
   FA5DB.22434021102007@inetnews.worldnet.att.net...   
   > 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   
      
   Actually, the PET line wasn't dropped.  Commodore was shipping all of the PETs   
   to Europe where they were fetching more than double the price that they sold   
   for in the USA.  The USA was more of a price-conscious market and the VIC-20   
   (over 2 million sold),   
    the C64 (over 18 million sold) and the C128 (over 4 million sold) were much   
   better prepared to compete in the USA.   
      
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