Commodore only ever produced machines that they had orders from distributors. They would show up at CES with barely working prototypes and see if anyone was interested before putting them into production. There was no strategy beyond that. What they say before machines are put into production and what they say afterwards therefore have no relation to each other. While people wanted to buy a VIC20 they would still manufacture them, so it would make sense to tell people they are still manufacturing them. There wasn't enough demand in the Ultimax, so it died. On 04/09/2016 11:45, Oldcomputr wrote: > This is one of the articles (archive.org OCRed), and shows how Commodore would have positioned the Ultimax (vs Atari 2600 and Intellivision... but wasn't that the VIC 20? Shatner's commercials explicitly told that) and the C64 (vs Atari 800 and Apple II): Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2016-09-04 13:01:19
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