Den Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:08:25 +0100 skrev smf <smf@null.net>: > On 27/08/2018 21:13, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > > > You can blame Commodore for many things, but here, I can understand > > that it was very difficult. > > I accept it would be a difficult bug to find, but it's also clear > that the 1540 & 1541 didn't have any kind of priority at commodore & > not enough resources were given to it. Yes. As 1540 afaik were really expensive compared to a VIC 20, they would probably not had planned to sell that many units. The fact that they made an official IEEE interface for VIC 20 is also an indicator of that they weren't really expecting 1540 to sell that much. The 1540 were probably partially there just to make the VIC 20 seem better in comparison with other computers. The more expensive competitors like Atari and TRS-80 all had disk drives. Btw how were stuff sold at different parts of the world? Here in Sweden the importer Datatronic more or less exclusively sold the VIC / C64 range including periperials through their daughter company Handic to resellers which usually were home electronics shops, while the PET/CBM range were sold directly by Datatronic to afaik a set of more qualified computer resellers (or maybe they sold directly to the end customer?). That makes it seem kind of hard for a VIC 20 user to actually buy a drive for the IEEE interface. Not super hard but you'd have to buy the drive and the computer from different resellers even though everything were made by the same company. Was it something like this in other parts of the world also? (Btw the Swedish importer made their own IEEE interface for C64, called "Superbox 64" (three switcheable cartridge slots and an IEEE interface)). -- (\_/) Copy the bunny to your mails to help (O.o) him achieve world domination. (> <) Come join the dark side. /_|_\ We have cookies.Received on 2018-08-28 13:01:38
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