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I grew up in a small town in Ontario with a Vic 20, then C64. A few years after I moved to Toronto, the Amiga seemed the next logical step, but then PC "clones"

I grew up in a small town in Ontario with a Vic 20, then C64. A few years after I moved to Toronto, the Amiga seemed the next logical step, but then PC "clones" started getting all the attention. I really never met any Apple people. My focus at that point became PC clones, as clunky as they were. There were lots of shops that tried to sell Apple II clones, but Apple wiped them out. The PC has an open design. I dropped the attachment to a particular brand, but the appeal of openness and choice has never left me. I've tried the Apple ecosystem a few times and do involuntary tech support for it, I'm just glad the industry has this foundation of openness. edit: put "clones" in quotes, because that's not a fair characterization (open by design), but it's the one people use.

Narishma 4y ago
The Apple II also had an open design years before the PC.
- davidy123 4y ago
  Not that open. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_clones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_clones
TMWNN 4y ago
>I grew up in a small town in Ontario with a Vic 20, then C64. A few years after I moved to Toronto, the Amiga seemed the next logical step, but then PC "clones" started getting all the attention. Commodore began as a Canadian company. I don't know if that made the difference, but for whatever reason it was a strong market for Commodore's early computers. Canadian and European sales kept the Commodore PET alive while Apple and Tandy dominated the US market. Jim Butterfield and the Toronto PET Users Group were enormously influential, and they maintained their influence even after the VIC-20 and C64 finally made Commodore as successful in the US as outside it.