Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!tqVxbNp5fQxhSEK2tU/iVA.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "OldbieOne" Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair Subject: Re: Commodore bought Amiga because it was worried about the QL Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:52:27 -0500 Organization: DisOrganization Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <20221124184311.615cf475@bulldozer> <18d3veiwbhk6d$.dlg@news.bartheld.net> Reply-To: "OldbieOne" Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="54136"; posting-host="tqVxbNp5fQxhSEK2tU/iVA.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.sinclair:5086 "Volker Bartheld" wrote in message news:18d3veiwbhk6d$.dlg@news.bartheld.net... > 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. -- OldbieOne The One Who Tells It Like It Is (TM) Brought to you by RetroPC Build Windows v4.0.950B-2