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Originally Posted by dreamkatcha
I don't intend to weigh in on any of the Commodore history, just a general question to ponder: are the oldest sources necessarily the most accurate? It does help that they were written closer to the events, but they remain prone to the usual biases/mistakes so too have to be taken with a pinch of salt.
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There is no absolute truth.
Vilém Flusser, philosopher, have great talks on this topic
[ Show youtube player ] what is history, how we see events...
But there are history events written in documents.
How human memory degrade over time is e.g. Jack Tramiels memories of that he gave name to his company by seeing Opel Commodore in Germany (which is impossible since Opel Commodore come to market decade after he already gave name "Commodore" to his company).
Other problem is that everybody have his own agenda e.g. R.J.Mical many times said that he will rather tell a good story than anything else.
@TroyWilkins
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very interesting stuff, and quite large! I will spent evening in reading