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Re: alt.folklore.nanog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Wed Apr 14 20:04:48 2010
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:04:21 -0700
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <201004141249.28255.lowen@pari.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Lamar Owen wrote:
> and construction of the prototype. It was announced to the public on August
> 3, 1977, and sold a quarter of a million units over its lifetime (talking
> about the 'Model I' only). IOW, the TRS-80 was already in design before the
> PET was shown to John Roach; that's the minor correction.
Right, I believe the book was trying to say that the missed opportunity
is that Commodore could have sold the original PET in Tandy's stores. I
assume you were (as I was) wondering why the hell Tandy would have done
that as it've been a competitor to the TRS-80. But then Commodore
(having taken over MOS technologies) sold CPUs to their major
competitors including Apple and Atari. So it's not unheard of.
Regards,
Jeroen
