Date   : Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:33:43 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Andrew W <a.weston2@...>
Subject: Re: Revival of Commodore

In <URL:news:local.misc> on Thu 06 Jan, Darren Grant wrote:
> Commodore has been passed around like a hot potato with various companies
> promising to revive the brand along with the Amiga name also has had several
> attempts at being revived. None of these ideas have come to much as no
> modern computer can capture the essence of these original home / school
> computers. There was a certain charm about 8 bit and some early 16 bit
> micros
>
Thankfully BBC BASIC and BASIC assembler are still only a button away
on Acorn descendents.

> Many people learnt how to program Basic or had their first experiences of
> fitting upgrades on these classic machines. But I think there would be
> little interest in remakes of these machines from anyone other than people
> who grew up with them.

This is a sizeable number of people even so.

> Getting a cheap old computer and firing it up to remind you of the
> fun you had in those days is very satisfying but I doubt people would
> want to start trading in their modern computers for updated 8bit or
> 16bit systems.
> 
There's certainly a case to be made for an enthusiast making them in
bulk. 


regards,


A.Weston
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Staffordshire, UK of GB&NI.