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From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Machines that never saw the light of day
Message-ID: <6183.275B3525@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 90 14:19:41 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario

John Debert (onymouse@netcom.UUCP ) wrote:

 >From article <61@mixcom.UUCP>, by cyaa01@mixcom.UUCP (Chris 
 >Klausmeier):
> Are there any other machines that Commodore was going to release but
> scrapped? Enquiring minds want to know! Thanks!

 > I seem to recall that CBM was working on a new version of the C64 
 >(not the
 > 64C) with some enhanced capabilities (and not the 128, either) but 
 >that was apparently dropped also, for some reason.

   I asked Fred Bowen (head of engineering at Commodore and 'father' of the 
C128) about that almost exactly a year ago, and he revealed that the folks at 
Commodore had developed prototypes of C64 replacements at the rate of about one 
a year, but that none was ever given the big go-ahead.

   I have recently heard rumours of further activity in that field, so I asked 
Fred again this year. "No specific details" he replied, diplomatically.
 


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