Re: Some Commodore stuff by Alan Gilchrist
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:08 pmThe C16... the baby of the TED family. Tramiel was gone when it was released, along with the equally irritating Plus/4, 264 and 116...
Carcenomy wrote:The C16... the baby of the TED family. Tramiel was gone when it was released, along with the equally irritating Plus/4, 264 and 116...
Brian Bagnall's "Commodore: A Company on the Edge" goes some way to explaining the TED series. Apparently the Tramiel idea was an el cheapo machines to compete with the (by then heavily discounted) TI-99/4A (364) and ZX Spectrum (C116). Herd says he was aiming for a C116 build cost of $50 to sell for $100. When Tramiel left, the idea got lost, and the shite Plus/4 software costs escalated, and the whole series was doomed from the start.
I would argue your comment that the C16 was equally irritating as the Plus/4 and C116; I have a C116 and it is the most irritating of all - possibly beaten by the legendarily crap Mattel Aquarius. It makes the rubber keyboard Speccy look like a classy piece of kit
