This week at Flashbak, I remembered the Commodore VIC-202, the so-called "wonder computer" of the 1980s.
Here's a snippet, and the url (http://flashbak.com/remembering-wonder-computer-1980s-commodore-vic-20-47427/ )
"The
first home computer to sell a million units was the Commodore VIC-20, an 8-bit
unit hawked by Star Trek star William Shatner and released on the market in
1981.
Sold
at a very reasonable $299.99, the Commodore VIC-20 was the best-selling
computer of the 1982, and described as “revolutionary.”
Or,
as the ads trumpeted: “a computer like
this would have been science fiction a few years ago. Now it’s reality.”
Shatner’s
TV commercials were effective, in part because the marketing technique involved
positioning the VIC-20 against Atari 2600 and Intellivision game systems.
“Why buy just a video
game?” Shatner
queried, when “the whole family can learn
to compute!” A key selling point was, accordingly, that this machine had a
keyboard, not just joysticks."
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