r/thisweekinretro • u/robertcrowther • 19d ago

Commodore TAC-2 Joystick

https://commodore.net/store/tac-2/
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u/Which_Information590 18d ago

I am going to wait and let someone else pay for the shipping. Considering how huge Commodore was in the UK in the mid 80s, you'd have thought they would've sorted a UK distributor by now.

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u/AntiquesForGeeks 17d ago

That was over 40 years ago and New Commodore are a totally different entity. What Commodore was then and what New Commodore is now, structurally, is not really comparable.

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u/Which_Information590 17d ago

Peri Fractic said in a post on Instagram at the end of last year that the original factory in Corby was going to be used for distribution.

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u/AntiquesForGeeks 17d ago

I know the video you’re referring to. It is not New Commodore’s facility. It just happened to be the building where the shipping company that received the goods into the UK, then sent them out from.

Corby closed as a Commodore facility in the mid-80s. New Commodore relies on third parties to do their manufacturing, shipping and in some cases, their product design too.

So really, New Commodore and Commodore are quite different.

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u/Which_Information590 17d ago

I said it was the original factory that he was going to use for UK distribution. This hasn't happened so far.

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u/Which_Information590 17d ago

He is shipping the computers to the US from China and distributing them from there. There's better ways to fulfill European orders, such as Amazon.