Comments on: Commodore could have owned AOL

By: WeirdEdge

WeirdEdge — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 12:55:16 +0000

Quote “Commodore, meanwhile, famously never reached its stated goal of $1 billion in annual sales.”

Didn’t Commodore famously (it was the first) reach $1 billion in sales in 1984? I’ve seen numerous sources claiming so.

By: S.M. Oliva

S.M. Oliva — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 12:25:58 +0000

What’s funny about Steve Case is that his involvement with AOL was largely an accident of nepotism. Case’s brother was a successful investment banker who was a major backer of the original Control Video. Meanwhile, Steve was living somewhere in the Midwest doing market research for Pizza Hut. He went to Las Vegas to see Control Video’s presentation at CES, and that’s when his brother got him a marketing job with the company. Case was later promoted to head of marketing when Control Video’s new CEO basically fired everyone else in the department.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 11:04:19 +0000

Quote “Commodore, meanwhile, famously never reached its stated goal of $1 billion in annual sales.”

Er, I thought Commodore famously did in 1984. It was downhill from there of course.

By: neo

neo — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:25:53 +0000

could your next blog about Commodore C-64 and compare with Tandy Color computers 3

when I was a kid i thought Tandy Color computers 3 with 512k ram must be better than Commodore C-64 with 64k ram