Anyone around here knowing why the remaining chapters were not released in the past nine years since the first batch showed up?

Yeah, me too.

The slogan, I just looked it up, is as old as 1984. It seems prophetic by today, which I find irritating and interesting. By 1984, the world just started to move into personal computing, away from the terminal approach. Today’s hardware is magnitudes more advanced, although the shift away from personal computing to a terminal approach has probably not reached its peak.

And then there is Sun’s logo. This should be included in every top ten list of the best logos in history.

To add to the discussion, there is also the takeaway (as in flully assembled and functional) version of the C65. One gets the C65 prototype and the C64 compatibility along with a floppy drive. That’s also an FPGA, albeit twice the price. https://mega65.org/

I still use them in a HP Vectra dual socket Pentium 75 - a Sony one manufactured in 1994.

Some of these are magnitudes more complex than tray loaders, failing left and right with more years going by. Some had several boards inside moving and shifting with the inserted caddies. I can only guess that this was hell to get right in the earlier days: the cartridge was moving, the loader mechanism was moving and the laser was, sometimes on a separate plane, moving, too.

I remember when, after the trays came up (these were considered just OK), slot loaders took a seat. Everyone I knew who used a caddy drive stared at these things in horror: Yeah, good idea. Let’s pat directly on the surface read by the laser. What could possibly go wrong?

Did not matter in the end. CD prices dropped like a stone and that was it. :-)

Additionally, older systems are completely void of the constant war against the system. At some point, systems felt like a professional tool to do stuff, now it’s more a feeling of using a rented consumer gadget you have to forcefully pressure into a deterministic no-nonsense-mode. As if these were never meant to be used productively.