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Interesting to me that the Apple II+ was the only one in the comparison matrix that supported only upper case letters. That lead me to this: https://www.vinta

• classichasclass 1y ago
  It's a fair cop against the II+ but there are other things in the comparison which are mildly hinky. I find their characterization of POKEY a little unfair, even though I think SID is superior, and the CP/M option on the C64 was nearly useless because the 1541 didn't read MFM formats. (Much more useful on the C128, but you needed a 1571 disk drive, and by 1985 CP/M was on its way out.) The keyboard criteria are also somewhat of an Apples-to-Commodores comparison, so to speak. Still, it's hard-hitting ad copy and it was Tramiel's Commodore -- he was determined to win, by golly.
  • vardump 1y ago
    Wasn’t POKEY out of tune due to limited frequency register? Making it hard to produce music that sounds good.
• _wire_ 1y ago
  But there was the Apple 80 column card option with full ascii. Add USCD Pascal and suddenly it morphed from plaything to a programming-for-computer-science trainer.
• mixmastamyk 1y ago
  The Apple is almost five years older than the C64, an eternity in that era.