If you are of a certain age and owned a ZX Spectrum you will remember well the playground taunts from your Commodore owning friends regarding colour clash, its rubber keyboard and feeble sound effects. Likewise if you owned a Commodore 64 you will remember the playground taunts regarding washed out colours, peeks and pokes and the relative lack of software in your local WH Smith.
If you do, then you will be interested to read Robert John Shepherd’s article over at MyReviewer.com where he tries to settle the argument once and for all. Intelligently, unlike back in the early 80’s…
ahem, what about us BBC Micro Model B owners – espec after we had access to Watford DFS, 40/80 track switchable 5.25″ disk drives and a copy of Elite !
Haha. No-one from the schools I went to could afford a BBC B, let alone the drives and ROMs. The schools themselves were the only owners of Beebs where I come from. 😉
The “playground argument” is illogical. The Commodore is by far the superior machine. I only wish we had such excellent computers aboard the Enterprise.