Author: Shalroth (wwwcache-c.lmu.ac.uk)
Date: 10-12-2001 13:48
Many are the times I've wanted to take Mr. Tramiel by the throat and shake some engineering design principles into him... If only they hadn't junked the 5200 and abandoned the Lorraine proejct in 1983... Ah well. We got some great hardware, even if some of it was half arsed and kludgy (like the XEP-80, Mega ST and, well, anything to do with the Falcon and the Jaguar).
Everything XL-related was great, the video games were great, and then Tramiel arrived and we got the ST (designed by Commodore), the Lynx (designed by Epyx), the 7800 (a 5200 with naff controllers and no decent soundchip), the XEGS (I love that one by the way, but what were they thinking?) and the SLM605 (built by Mannesman-Tally), the Portfolio (designed by DIP in the UK), the Jaguar (Chipset designed by Toshiba, console built by IBM)... ... ...
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