Go back to say 1985.
Apple Mac sales despite great publicity are very poor in 1984-1985
Apple III is a recent disaster
Atari is bleeding to death in a sea of red ink
Commodore 64 is unassailable, the best selling computer ever, and will continue to sell in huge volumes for about another decade
Commodore Amiga is on the horizon, superior to the Mac on price and performance
Commodore has their own FAB, and therefore has an apparently unassailable technical advantage on things like graphics chips over Apple, plus all but a few computer companies
Commodore has massive vertical component integration so has an apparently unassailable price advantage over Apple, and virtually everybody except IBM and TI - but TI have dropped out of the home computer business
Commodore has an impressive workstation (Commodore UNIX machine) apparently ready to be released.
If somebody said in 20 years that Commodore would be history, and Apple would be the 2nd computer company, a lot of people would say ASB