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Left: Commodore, star at traction of CES. Right: Com
modore's POO and PC20 IBM clones. READER SERVICE NO. 104
SUMMER '85 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW-THE CHIPS ARE DOWN Still bullish on the home compu ter market? You weren't at June's Consumer Electronics Show. The
desertion the show's organizers feared Of course, some believe that canny
fortunately, intended for sale in North America. Among the new computers planned for the European market are
Whll Street Journal aptly described
old Jack Tramicl cancelled primarily
the IBM PC-compatible PC10 and
the computer software section as a
to convince Commodore not to rush
PC20 (pictured on this page), the
"ghost town." For us, the proof of the
the announcement of their new Ami
Unix-compatible Commodore 900
pudding was in the carrying: the bag of Commodore-related press releas es we toted back to New York weighed in at twelve pounds, less
ga computer, since Atari's 520ST
Business
would not be there to steal the show
workstation), and the 128D, featur
than half of what we brought home
less arrays of software displayed at
Jackintosh and all—Tramiel left Com modore with nowhere near sufficient time to ready an Amiga presentation. Believe this tale of corporate intrigue if you will. The fact is that, even
last summer's show. Particularly no
without Amiga, Commodore domin
but seen for the first time at the
ticeable was the dearth of education al releases for the Commodore, long
ated the floor (helped by the feet that Atari wound up tucked away in a cor
convention:
the most glutted sector of the 64 mar
ner of (he upstairs level). While the hordes of newshungry reporters that invaded the Commo dore booth were disappointed by
density disks with up to 340K (for matted) memory in C-128 mode and
Amiga's absence. Commodore did
4I0K in CP/M mode.
display a most impressive collection of hardware-almost none of it, un
1200, utilizing VLSI technology to
from January's show in Las Vegas. Most vendors were modest in their
offerings, by comparison to the end
ket. A number of prominent manu
facturers were conspicuous by their absence. Rumor has it that Atari, which had pulled out weeks before the show, was given their booth at a negligible cost to prevent the mass
their cancellation would signal.
Computer
(a
multiuser
in Amiga's absence. By reentering as
ing a built-in disk drive and inde
an exhibitor at the eleventh hour—
pendent keyboard. Of greater interest to American and Canadian readers were the following
peripherals
compatible
with
the
C-128 (and in some cases the C-64
as well), some previously announced
• The 1572 Dual Disk Drive, com prising two horizontal 5l4" drives, each reading double-sided, single-
• The Commodore 1670 Modem/
AHOY!
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