A Commodore PeeCee? Surely not?!

[Plaz]

Ah yes, the Commodore Colt. I repaired them along with other clone systems of the day. (circa 1990) I don't recall them releasing a Pentium model, but it must have been near the end of their days. 286/386 Colts were never 100% IBM compatible despite the claims. I used to run side by side comparisons for customers to prove where their software problems were coming from.

It was one of my theories of the day that Commodore lost so much money trying to crack the clone market with an inferior unit, that Amiga developement suffered and eventually the product failure helped crash the company.

Plaz

[Plaz]

@tokyoracer

Wouldn't it have been safer to just concerntrate on the Amiga brand?

I think it would have been better. I think they even had the chance to market millions of C64/128's to a waiting Asian market. Unfortunately Commodore had no idea how to market the Amiga. So instead they ended up with a case of PC envy. "Every one thinks the Amiga is a game machine (because we're idiots) so lets go out and make PC clones like all the "real" computer companies. Duhhhhhhh"

If they had to pick an alternate platform, even some thing unix would have been a better choice than a 98% compatible PC clone.

Plaz