From: nospam.Dave.Drum@f1.n770.z732.fidonet.org   
      
   -=> Andreas Kohlbach wrote to Dave Drum <=-   
      
    > Jack, who dumped CBM in favour of Atari (nee Tramiel Technology Ltd.)   
    > was just as much about money as Irving (Gould) and Medhi (Ali) who came   
    > after him at Commodore and busted it out for fun and (especially) profit.   
    >   
    > ... Amiga made it possible. Commodore made it dead.   
      
    AK> Wasn't it Commodore offering a cash back of some sort in the early to   
    AK> mid 1980s? You would send in your existing non-Commodore computer and   
    AK> get a discount of some $199 of a price of $249. Some people bought a   
    AK> brand new Timex Sinclair 1000 for $99, sent it to Commodore to receive   
    AK> a Commodore 64. To make some $50. That was a very aggressive marketing   
    AK> strategy by Commodore. I only learned about this reading some 1980s   
    AK> BYTE magazines as PDF which also contained to contemporary   
    AK> advertisements. --   
    AK> Andreas   
      
   I missed that. At the time the C=64 appeared I had a TRaSh-80 that I had   
   got at a whacking great discount by owning Tandy shares (10). The discount   
   saved me more than I had spent on the stock. It never paid a ca$h dividend   
   but it kept getting split into more shares and automatically got me stock   
   in spin-off companies. As well as share-holder discounts at Tandy Leather   
   and Radio Shack stores (all long gone). When I did sell up - long after   
   I peddled the TRS-80 I got over 10X what I had originally spent on the   
   stock. It was enough I had to list it on my income taxes.   
      
   And in the middle of all that I bought my first C=64/1541/1702 monitor   
   for under U$500. Still have the 1702 monitor as it is a great editing   
   monitor for video tapes.  Bv)=   
      
   ... Computers run on smoke. They stop when it leaks out.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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