From the (e)Bookshelf: Commodore: A Company on the Edge

In delving into the particulars of computers from the 1980s as if to know now what I'd missed then (which might be no better or worse than grown adults buying up the toys they hadn't had as kids), period sources are useful but works made with the benefit of hindsight would seem to offer important perspectives too. A fair while ago, I managed to hear about a book by Brian Bagnall said to provide the history of Commodore computers; by the time I had, though, it seemed to have sold out. I then heard he'd split off the first part of his book and revised it with promises of a similar revision to the history that followed, but in the process I did start wondering about other things I'd heard. It might be one thing to say that "the survivors, at least, have written the history books," but from what I heard Bagnall was insistent on putting down Apple Computer in particular, even "the hacker-friendly Apple II crafted by that lovable 'Woz.'" It felt somehow a bit less like "the truth since obscured" and more like "grinding a particular ax, one familiar to this day."
( Going ahead despite that )