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

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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.

Volker

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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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