Jobs Movie

[spirantho]

As for commodore being missed out, there was a tv movie by the BBC about Sinclair and Acorn a couple of years ago and from that film you could of thought that the only 8 bits of note in the 80s were the Sinclair Amstrad and Acorn. They missed out the fact that Commodore was dominating the market.

Are you talking about Micro Men?

That film was focused on the rivalry between Sinclair and Acorn for the BBC contract (which Acorn won, of course). If they were to cover the rest of the market at the time, then it would have been a 10-hour long biopic There were also Oric, Dragon, Tandy, Jupiter Catab., Grundy, EACA, Mattel... the list goes on and on and on.

Also, I'd guess you're from the US? Commodore did not come close to dominating the 8-bit market over here. The dominant machines were the Sinclairs, with Commodore being next and then Amstrad - but in no way at all did Commodore dominate the UK market, and that's what the film was dealing with.

[spirantho]

That's really odd! You must have been lucky then, around here it was mostly Spectrum (which was fine as I had a Spectrum! )

The Reg did an article here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/03/charted_1983_home_computer_sales_in_uk/
from actual sales figures, and it does back up how I remember it.

The real difference was the CBM overpriced the C64 in the UK, whereas the Sinclair retailed mostly for £129.

[spirantho]

@AmigaNG,
Like when I was talking to him he really liked the 286 and 386 structure. He said if he knew those processors where going to be coming out, he would of loved to try them to see what they would do. Back when he chose the 68000 that was the chip of the day.

The 80386, maybe, but I very much doubt the 80286.
Partially because the 80286 had already been out for a few years when the Amiga was designed (it was introduced in 1982) and partly because it was a bit rubbish, certainly compared to the 68000.
The 80386 is possible, though - starting at 16MHz and having a protected mode which was actually useful, I can see why he could have been interested in that one.

There was, of course, one catch. The 80386 was incredibly expensive at the time, so it still would have been impractical to have actually used one in an Amiga.