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   Brandon Staggs to jt august   
   Re: Jack Tramiel at CHM - Dec. 10 !!!   
   22 Oct 07 13:59:53   
   
   XPost: comp.sys.cbm, rec.games.video.classic   
   From: nospam@a.b.c   
      
   "jt august" wrote on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:45:32 GMT:   
      
   > In article <1hl4q08qcnjf2.1cexgdvhq10oj$.dlg@40tude.net>,   
   >  Brandon Staggs  wrote:   
   >   
   >> If my   
   >> parents had gotten me an Apple ][ I'd probably have just decided to   
   >> dig ditches or flip hamburgers all my life. :-)   
   >   
   > You might have been better off.  If the PET was so great, why was it   
   > gone from the landscape by the time the C=64 was becoming a powerhouse,   
   > but the Apple ][ family was still thriving with the //e and //c in those   
   > years?   
      
   I never used a PET.  The C64, by any measure, outdid the Apple II line   
   of computers.   
      
   --   
   -Brandon   
    http://www.brandonstaggs.com/c64.html   
      
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