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That is very far from the truth, and the truth was nowhere as simple as that either. Commodore was a very serious and successful supplier of small business com
by phkamp 7y ago
That is very far from the truth, and the truth was nowhere as simple as that either.
Commodore was a very serious and successful supplier of small business computers with the 8xxx and 82xx series.
The main problem was that in this segment Commodore came out of a typewriter/calculator mindset, so there were absolutely nobody who ever thought "lets connect computers together", and that set a hard upper ceiling how how large companies they could sell to.
Once a business grew, the CBM computers were replaced, not because they were unhappy with them, but because they were not big enough.
Heck, even at Commodore we used IBM S/34 internally.
- masswerk 7y agoSee my earlier comment on this below. In Europe, the PET had been pretty much what the Apple II had been in the US. It is heart shattering how Commodore/CBM was unable to exploit this position (e.g., by providing an upgrade path to the next level) – whatever the internal dynamics behind this.