The early years of Jack Tramiel might be an interesting story. As for Commodore, I don't know - I grew up with their 8-bit machines and they were cheap & shoddy, and Amiga had no chance with the way the company was run.

I had a C64 in college. I used it almost exclusively for word processing, and sometimes for a crazy 8 bit game that was vaugely similar to GALAGA. It wasn't a great machine, but I miss those old school keyboard-driven word processing programs. With the G64, I used Speedscript, and later at my job, I used PCWrite for DOS. They weren't easy to learn, but once you learned them, the workflow was seamless. The closest thing I've been able to find is gnu-emacs, a text editor that I think may have been written by Richard Stallman that is almost perversely counter intuitive. The 21st Century word processing software programs, with their relentless WYSIWYG always have me thinking of the page instead of the words.

I ask myself now if this is why I stopped writing. And then I ask myself if I'm really that much of a pussy.