>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. 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.