Re: Commented 1541-II DOS disassembly

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 12:12 PM Mia Magnusson <mia@plea.se> wrote:

>
> Btw how were stuff sold at different parts of the world? Here in Sweden
> the importer Datatronic more or less exclusively sold the VIC / C64
> range including periperials through their daughter company Handic to
> resellers which usually were home electronics shops, while the PET/CBM
> range were sold directly by Datatronic to afaik a set of more qualified
> computer resellers (or maybe they sold directly to the end customer?).
> That makes it seem kind of hard for a VIC 20 user to actually buy a
> drive for the IEEE interface. Not super hard but you'd have to buy the
> drive and the computer from different resellers even though everything
> were made by the same company.
>
> Was it something like this in other parts of the world also?o

I'm not sure what distributor CBM had in Italy, but in 1982-1984,
VIC-20 and C64 were available in house electronic shops (TV,
washing-machines etc. kind of shops to be clear).
I saw this VIC-20 on one of these shops and convinced my father it was
a great thing to have :) It was mid-1982 and the shop was able to find
the power supply only one week after we bought that VIC-20 (it was the
old 2-pins 9V AC supply).
In the same years, the more "serious" PETs could be seen in the office
equipment stores (typing machines, copiers, etc. kind of stores).
Things quickly changed right after 1984, when specialized shops
started to pop up everywhere.

Frank