Thirty years ago today, #Commodore International declared bankruptcy. Not the #Commodore64, not the #Amiga, and certainly not the #CD32 could save them.
@mjgardner The first computer I ever used was a Commodore PET that lived in the elementary school library. My first home computer was a VIC-20, followed by a Commodore 64. (After that, I went the PC route, but plenty of friends went to Amiga.)
@owainski@vingtroiseize Yah, the A1200 and A4000 were simultaneously too little and too much too late to save Commodore from the newly-installed mismanagement.
And the weird structural defect of having to solicit orders from a dozen country- or region-specific independent marketing & sales company subsidiaries didn’t help.
Even the Mac looked more attractive both inside and out in the early 1990s.