Official Marketing And Technology Demo (1983) | Commodore Plus/4

[@CyberhugTechnologies]

Another great finding George! Impressive video indeed! Congrats on 1K subs! Thanks again for sharing my friend!

[@GeorgesChannel]

Thank you for the nice words, my friend! It's this friendly community that gives me great motivation..i asked for 3 more subs and got over 40 :)

[@JosipRetroBits]

Great video George and an awesome demo find :) Congrats on 1K !!!!! Cheers!

[@GeorgesChannel]

Thank you my friend! Was watching your Plus/4 Userport video today. I try to get a genius mouse with max232 running

[@datassetteuser356]

Nice demo! And you did it, 1000 subs! 🎉 Congrats, well deserved, enjoy your focus on Plus4 very much! 👏🍾

[@GeorgesChannel]

Vielen Dank, Datasetteuser! War extrem schwierig in so einer Nische aller Nischen..:)

[@datassetteuser356]

@GeorgesChannel Dafür echt super gemacht in recht kurzer Zeit! Top!

[@GeorgesChannel]

@@datassetteuser356 Vielen Dank auch an Dich und die Community, die einige meiner Videos geteilt haben. Ohne Euch wäre das nicht möglich gewesen. Frohes neues Jahr wünsche ich Dir und Deiner Familie...:)

[@datassetteuser356]

@@GeorgesChannel Dito!

[@Alex-jb5tb]

Cool demo !

[@GeorgesChannel]

@@Alex-jb5tb Thank you for watching

[@kennytrampos7409]

Awesome video... thanks for sharing!!!

[@GeorgesChannel]

@@kennytrampos7409 Thank you for watching :)

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

Very nice indeed.

[@GeorgesChannel]

I agree..i think this demo was worth a video, also for historical reasons..:)

[@chrisrobinson9178]

So nice to se one running used for my accounts when II went self employed plus fire ant and the pirate game Treasure Island

[@GeorgesChannel]

What was your experience with the plus/4 productivity software back then? Were you missing 80columns like some say, or were 40 columns enough...

[@chrisrobinson9178]

@@GeorgesChannel The 40 columns where enough as I was just a one man band decorator and didn't have to brake my accounts down that far and letters where simple nothing to drastic printed out quite well as I remember

[@danield.7359]

So much more capable than a C64 when it comes to productivity. They should have given it a 80 col text mode though.

[@GeorgesChannel]

Came with the C128... the plus/4 was originally designed as c116 and ended as plus/4 when Jack left

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

80 cols really needed a video output capable of more than just SD

[@phill6859]

80 columns and an 8088 running MS-DOS would have been amazing. But it was originally designed to compete with the spectrum 16k. As the vic2 chip yields were terrible and the cost couldn't be bought down By the time the plus 4 was finished, the c64 yields were sorted and nobody wanted a 16k spectrum anyway.

[@danield.7359]

Yeah, seems like the C128 was the real deal and yet it wasn't because the Amiga and the Atari ST were lurking around the corner. I still own a ZX81 and two C64 from that era. I so much wanted a C128, but my dad bought an 80286 PC AT clone with a 40MB MFM Seagate ST-251 drive and two internal floppy drives. I think our first PC had a monochrome monitor and a Hercules compatible ISA graphics card. That was I think 1986. How I miss that time!

[@GeorgesChannel]

@danield.7359 i think your dad made the right choice. IBM compatibles were the more professional and versatile machines back than. i jumped in 1993 on the 386 train, with VGA and soundblaster. Totally missed the 16 bit period.

[@grossteilfahrer]

This could have been huge, but 40 columns was a toy and unsellable to small businesses by 1984. Had it been 80 col and with a type wheel printer to replace the typewriter for school essays and invoicing etc it could have been a hit I believe.

[@GeorgesChannel]

Specific Printer for the Plus/4: plus4world.powweb.com/hardware/Commodore_DPS_1101