[Coco] 8-Bit Microcomputers

[Neil Morrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>

> Yeah, what was with that?  It's like the 6502 simply couldn't deal
> with a standard floppy controller chip.
>
> Or was it all just greed on the part of the companies making those
> machines?

Commodore advertised it as their business model. In 2 page spreads
they would sell the idea of a cheap computer with expensive
accessories only available from their dealers, using the Gillette
model of making money on the blades and not the razor. When
aftermarket items came out they would rework their stuff to lock them
out.

NM