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  • Re: The Commodore 64 - 1980's Number 1 computer

    From winston19842005@yahoo.com@winston19842005@yahoo.com to comp.sys.cbm,alt.c64,comp.sys.ti on Thursday, January 14, 2010 01:56:38
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    TI-99 was #4! Cool!

    RobertB wrote:
    CNET TV has posted a short video listing the Top 5
    computers of the 1980's. The Commodore 64 wins out
    by being number 1! (We're number 1... we're number 1!)
    The Amiga computer comes in fifth place. To see the
    video, go to

    http://cnettv.cnet.com/1980s-computers/9742-1_53-50081092.html?tag=smallCarouselArea.1

    Truly,
    Robert Bernardo
    Fresno Commodore User Group
    http://videocam.net.au/fcug
    The Other Group of Amigoids
    http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
    Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
    http://www.sccaners.org
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  • From Math1723@anonym1723@aol.com to comp.sys.cbm,alt.c64,comp.sys.ti on Friday, January 15, 2010 09:17:00
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    On Jan 14, 4:56 am, "winston19842...@yahoo.com"
    <winston19842...@yahoo.com> wrote:
    TI-99 was #4! Cool!
    How many of you notice that they made a mistake in the final screen,
    showing the TI-99/4 instead of the TI-99/4A? Tsk tsk, if you did
    not. :-)
    This should probably have been called the "Top 5 Home Computers of the
    1980's", back when the term "home computer" meant in contradistinction
    to "microcomputers" (IBM's, Macs, etc.). Home Computers were priced
    in the hundreds of dollars, whereas micros were in the thousands.
    People don't use those terms today, but it was certainly an
    interesting time. :-)
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  • From schmidtd@schmidtd@my-deja.com to comp.sys.cbm,alt.c64,comp.sys.ti on Friday, January 15, 2010 09:41:25
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    On Jan 14, 4:56 am, "winston19842...@yahoo.com"
    <winston19842...@yahoo.com> wrote:
    TI-99 was #4! Cool!
    Our host, Tom Merritt, said he still had his. Later, he said he had
    sold it to buy a C64. Which is it?
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  • From Jonathan Hoyle@jonhoyle@mac.com to comp.sys.cbm,alt.c64,comp.sys.ti on Friday, January 15, 2010 10:57:38
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    On Jan 15, 12:41 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
    On Jan 14, 4:56 am, "winston19842...@yahoo.com"

    <winston19842...@yahoo.com> wrote:
    TI-99 was #4! Cool!

    Our host, Tom Merritt, said he still had his.  Later, he said he had
    sold it to buy a C64.  Which is it?
    To me, it sounded like he said he *decided* to sell his TI-99/4A for
    the promise of getting a C-64. Then it sounded like he didn't get
    it. Or perhaps he got a C-64 later, without having to sell his TI
    after all. I suppose he might have had two TI-99's, but I would think
    that is even more unlikely.
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  • From Golan Klinger@no@sp.am to comp.sys.cbm,alt.c64,comp.sys.ti on Friday, January 15, 2010 19:41:25
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    schmidtd wrote:

    Our host, Tom Merritt, said he still had his. Later, he said he had
    sold it to buy a C64. Which is it?

    He also referred to himself as an Apple II user and said the Amiga could
    "do up to 16 million colours in 1985". It would seem that he's as fast and loose with the truth as he is with the facts.

    --
    Golan Klinger
    Dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.
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  • From Math1723@anonym1723@aol.com to comp.sys.cbm,alt.c64,comp.sys.ti on Friday, January 15, 2010 15:03:23
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    On Jan 15, 2:41 pm, Golan Klinger <n...@sp.am> wrote:
    schmidtd wrote:
    Our host, Tom Merritt, said he still had his.  Later, he said he had
    sold it to buy a C64.  Which is it?

    He also referred to himself as an Apple II user and said the Amiga could
    "do up to 16 million colours in 1985". It would seem that he's as fast and loose with the truth as he is with the facts.
    Referring to himself as an Apple II user doesn't seem inconsistent, as
    many people had many computers at the same time back then (I know I
    did).
    But you are correct about the Amiga's colors. The 24-bit color
    pallette (16.8 million colors) didn't arrive on the Amiga until (I
    think) the Amiga 3000, which was much after 1985.
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  • From Clocky@notgonn@happen.com to comp.sys.cbm,alt.c64,comp.sys.ti on Saturday, January 16, 2010 08:36:58
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    "Math1723" <anonym1723@aol.com> wrote in message news:0ab57430-5c64-44d8-893b-81e2c12bce50@s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com...
    On Jan 15, 2:41 pm, Golan Klinger <n...@sp.am> wrote:
    schmidtd wrote:
    Our host, Tom Merritt, said he still had his. Later, he said he had
    sold it to buy a C64. Which is it?

    He also referred to himself as an Apple II user and said the Amiga could
    "do up to 16 million colours in 1985". It would seem that he's as fast and loose with the truth as he is with the facts.

    Referring to himself as an Apple II user doesn't seem inconsistent, as
    many people had many computers at the same time back then (I know I
    did).

    But you are correct about the Amiga's colors. The 24-bit color
    pallette (16.8 million colors) didn't arrive on the Amiga until (I
    think) the Amiga 3000, which was much after 1985.

    Nope, the Amiga 3000 was ECS like the later A2000's and A500's (early of
    each model were OCS). Only the A1200 and A4000 Amiga computers had AGA and both of those were released in the 90's.


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