Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Mike Stein <*mhs.stein_at_gmail.com*> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:33:07 -0500 Message-ID: <594961466D904D309B5F197D2B29A944@310e2> · mhs.stein_at_gmail.com

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From: "Mia Magnusson" <mia@plea.se>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

> ... A better way for IBM to make sure it
wouldn't sell to business users but still being a useable thing would be to equip it with a membrane keyboard and make sure it wouldn't be possible to replace the keyboard without voiding the warranty.

LOL; As a matter of fact they went the other way and offered a 'normal' keyboard as a replacement for the chiclet version (anybody want one?) but I don't recall that that led to a sudden boom in sales of PCjrs to the business market... ;-)