Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1424 from 2003/4/13
Quote:
Kronos wrote:
The 128 was an overengineerd brainfart that only sold by accident.
If C= had wanted a real 64 successor it should have been something like the C65 or the C900.
Both offcourse turned obsolete once they bought the Amiga.
People like to poop on the 128, including Bill Herd himself at times, but "only sold by accident" is wrong. To this day the 128 has a following. I personally upgraded from a 64 to a 128 in 1986. I knew exactly what I was getting and I was not disappointed. The 128 was not directly competing against the Amiga 1000. They were entirely different price points. My friend bought one of the first A1000s off the line, it cost him nearly $3,000. I didn't have anywhere near that kind of money. My 128 cost me something like 1/10th of that.
