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After reading this book about Commodore: http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Fall-Commodore/dp/0973864907/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270671408&sr=1

by nkassis 17y ago

After reading this book about Commodore: http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Fall-Commodore/dp/0973864907/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270671408&sr=1-3 http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Fall-Commodore/d... and a few other good accounts of the period, it really annoys me that Apple get the credit for inventing the personal computer. They were not even the most popular personal computer of the 80s (or 70s). I have a hard time finding anyone who own a Apple II but most of the people I work with were Commodore 64 owners.

stan_rogers 17y ago
The winners get to write the history -- and in the end, more people had more to do with Pagemaker, Illustrator and Photoshop (which were, in practical terms, Mac apps) than they did with the far-more-spectacular (for the time) Video Toaster and Caligari (Amiga). It's never been the machine; it's what people can do with it. If prosumer video was more accessible and lit more imaginations at the time, we'd be singing a different song today.