the "beloved" C= management could market these gems as comptitors to Amsdtrad's PCW range of computers. The PCW range were dedicated machines for word Procesing and spredsheets. They were made out of junk components and had Amstrad's custom 3-inch floppy drive (with super-expensive disks of low capacity). Somehow Amstrad managed to sell around 5 million of them, thus making them a great success. If Commodore were even half-asleep they could market these wonderful 8-bits to PPL who needed a computer for word processing and day-to-day calculations, but found IBM's junk, too expensive.
But I guess they were too busy making their own IBM-junk-clones.... :roll: