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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C-Ltd
Message-ID: <1807@agora.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 90 02:48:38 GMT
References: <1032@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca:
Reply-To: billsey@.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
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In article <1032@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
:In <90014.125436JKT100@PSUVM.BITNET:, JKT100@PSUVM.BITNET (JKT) writes:
::I, for one, was very satisfied with CardCo products - They were well
::designed, nicely priced, and had long lifetimes.  Does this sound like
::a company that still exists now?  Yes:  SUPRA.  Cardco was bought out
::by Supra, not C. Ltd.  I purchased CardCo products, was satified
::(my CardCo printer interface for my 64 is still working), and I will
::buy Supra prodcuts in the future.
:
:Perhaps Supra bought the assets of CardCo when they went under. I can assure
:you that the principal mover in C Ltd. came out of the ashes of CardCo and
:started C Ltd.

	That's exactly what happened. When Cardco went under, Ed took all the
Amiga products (at that time just the aMEGA and SCSI interface) with him to
form C-Ltd. The older C=64 stuff went on the block and were eventually picked
up by Supra.

: [Lot's of stuff pertaining to C-Ltd. troubles]

	One of the big problems that kicked up there was when they switched
from having CMI do teir software/hardware to having SoftCircuits do it all.
There was a fairly long period of time where they *had* to say `We're working
on it', with not much chance of seeing results for months... They eventually
fixed that when all the re-writing was done.

:That's just their customers. They also were instrumental in the demise of
:SoftCircuits, having paid a programmer to steal work already done by the
:programmer, and owned by SoftCircuits, then refusing to pay SoftCircuits for
:the work. Interestingly, they didn't bother to pay the programmer either, and
:he is trying to sue them.

	At least CMI eventually won a judgement against them (for the tune
of about $50K, I think)... Too bad C-Ltd. went bankrupt just as their time
to pay that off was up... :-) Now the exCMI people will never see any of it.
		Bill

:-larry
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