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Originally Posted by Jules76
My first computer was a Commodore Plus/4. I think it was supposed to be the successor to the C64, but it flopped and was discontinued the following year after it was released!
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I believe it was supposed to be a computer suitable for small business and home office use.
The 'Plus/4' referred to the four 'Office' applications that were included in the computers ROM, word processor, spreadsheet, database, and graphing.
In many ways the +4 was way superior than the C64, however it's graphics chip could not support sprites and the SID chip had been left out so only had basic audio, it therefore had limited appeal to gamers which was the C64's success.
If they had simply expanded on the C64(like the
Commodore65), so it was backwards compatible, but with the better graphics, BASIC, memory management and the four office apps, I reckon it would have been a winner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Plus/4