My family had a Commodore 128, though we didn't keep it very long. As I remember, we traded it in or sold it to help fund the new Amiga 1000.
I vaguely remember booting the system into CPM mode just to see what that was like, but seem to recall it was green or orange monochrome. At any rate, we didn't have any software to utilize it. I don't even think we had anything for the 128. It was always GO64 and that's the end of the story.
I'm guessing this would have been a much bigger hit among people who had a large quantity of CPM software, maybe businessmen or professionals needing apps like Wordstar. As far as the 128 mode goes, I'm not aware that much was ever done for it.
Bill, what was that other 8-bit super machine that more or less failed? I can't remember what it was, though I seem to think it may have been the CoCo 3. I need to re-read those entries. ;-)
My family had a Commodore 128, though we didn't keep it very long. As I remember, we traded it in or sold it to help fund the new Amiga 1000.
I vaguely remember booting the system into CPM mode just to see what that was like, but seem to recall it was green or orange monochrome. At any rate, we didn't have any software to utilize it. I don't even think we had anything for the 128. It was always GO64 and that's the end of the story.
I'm guessing this would have been a much bigger hit among people who had a large quantity of CPM software, maybe businessmen or professionals needing apps like Wordstar. As far as the 128 mode goes, I'm not aware that much was ever done for it.
Bill, what was that other 8-bit super machine that more or less failed? I can't remember what it was, though I seem to think it may have been the CoCo 3. I need to re-read those entries. ;-)
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