VCF SE 4.0 -- Memories from Commodore -- Bil Herd

[@sportspriceanalysis416]

Always love hearing Bil speak.

[@bobns509]

When you hear a truth about commodore company, culture, profit driven managers and how did it actually treated consumers with "christmas tree", kind of QA managers they had, security without any sense of reading a written note... What a crap that c company actually was but supported throught Media, "without obvious reason", it looked like a good computer manufacturer!

[@madcommodore]

Commodore with Jack was a chicken with its head chopped off, ironic.

[@Drekkag]

Did you mean to say without Jack? Because after Jack left is when commodore started going down hill. While Jack was there, it was actually a well-oiled business machine.

[@robwebnoid5763]

@@Drekkag ... thats probably what was meant. irving gould first saved the company & then later he destroyed it. sort of like what you would hear a god would do, heh.

[@The_Temple]

Probably was thinking ‘with Jack gone’, but didn’t come out right

[@madcommodore]

@@robwebnoid5763 TI killed C= and this let a financial vampire in the door, downhill slowly to a bled dry company until 1992 when there wasnt enough reserves to make A1200 cheap enough

[@robwebnoid5763]

​@@madcommodore ... Yeah thats true too, in the days of the electronic calculators. Its all a butterfly effect. Expensive proprietary hardware in the form of Amiga, CD32, etc did not help, along with mismanagement & lost vision/foreplanning post-Tramiel. And even though it was Tramiel's idea, I did not like his 264/364/Plus4 stuff, it was going in the wrong direction of trying to do the "Masses, not Classes" way too far & overkill, as it targeted a rival machine that eventually became negligible, impractical & forgetful, which then Commodore lost focus on that line after he left. Hindsight is 20/20. I think we all have to keep in mind that Commodore did not start out as an electronics company in the first place, as it was more like a typewriter repair shop, which it was still a technology company in that regard. But at least they stayed around for 4 decades & made a name for themselves for us nostalgic nerds to fondly remember, although the company name won't be nostalgic & known by currently young & yet-to-born future geeks. I still have all my C-64 stuff. :) 03/17/24