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Re: Commodore bought Amiga because it was worried about the QL

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"Volker Bartheld" <news2022@bartheld.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:43:11 +0000, Duncan Snowden wrote:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3drKG-CsIs
> > About 9 minutes in. My subject line might be a slight exaggeration, but
> > Andy Finkel (long-time Commodore guy) says that the European
> > subsidiaries were worried that they didn't have anything to compete
> > with Sinclair [...] "the QL was still the target".
>
> IMHO the two built-in Microdrives were the final nails in - pun intended
> - Sinclair's coffin. They already were shit with the IF-1 and the ZX
> Spectrum and they were big pile of s* in the QL.
>
> Wished there would have been an affordable alternative back then when I
> desperately needed (semi) quick external storage. But OH BOY was the
> DISCiPLE expensive in Germany. The Opus Discovery? Unobtanium. The
> Timex? Unheard of.
>
> And here I go again with a bunch of cartridges that need foam/felt
> replacement to be usable again. And having arrived there, I found out
> the hard way about the BASF Superchrome's magnetic print-through issue.

Those microdrives were beyond unreliable. I used them in the ham shack with
my daddy, and when they worked, they worked well. But the trouble was they
rarely worked without tinkering with the catridges.


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Commodore bought Amiga because it was worried about the QL Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2022-11-24 18:43 +0000
  Re: Commodore bought Amiga because it was worried about the QL Volker Bartheld <news2022@bartheld.net> - 2022-11-24 21:42 +0100
    Re: Commodore bought Amiga because it was worried about the QL "OldbieOne" <me@here.com> - 2022-11-28 14:52 -0500
  Re: Commodore bought Amiga because it was worried about the QL Damian Murphy <damian.murphy@gmail.com> - 2022-11-26 09:50 -0800

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