14 Apr
2010
14 Apr
'10
8:04 p.m.
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