> What were they smoking to come up with 3MHz 8bit computer when market moved on to 16/32 bit? I think the A500 cost more than 8-bit money, and back then a bar

> What were they smoking to come up with 3MHz 8bit computer when market moved on to 16/32 bit? I think the A500 cost more than 8-bit money, and back then a barebones 386 from a computer shopper ad cost about the same. Add VGA, monitor, sound card, hard disk and you far exceeded the A500 cost and there still weren't many good arcade type games for the PC. They probably wanted to sell to gamer-pirates. I remember thinking NES users were getting shafted buying $40 rom chips, when 100 floppies cost $25 and some of my friends had huge libraries to copy and trade. Edit: I liked the C128. I used CP/M on it at times. Ultima V was cooler to play in 128 mode. 80 columns, wow, I used that all the time with a 128-mode terminal (was it "desterm?"), some word processor I can't remember now, and GEOS was better except that it did not know how to handle the display aspect.