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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CDTV VCR support/control - infrared ?  serial ?
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Date: 26 Aug 90 23:54:44 GMT
References: <1990Aug16.182516.2512@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <13853@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Aug17.072522.8782@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1990Aug17.072522.8782@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley) writes:
>Just reporting what I heard.  Can't vouch for its accuracy.  The Commodore
>people asked "who in our organization are you interfacing with about the
>A3000?", and the (senior) NewTek person responded "Nobody.  The first we heard
>about the A3000 was at the launch."

	a)  How did they get to the A3000 launch with a big booth set up to
show off in, Penn & Teller video running, etc, if that was the first they'd
heard about it?

	b)  The (fairly high up I think) NewTek guys I was talking to there
didn't say anything like that to me.  They did say they would probably have
to redo the connectors on the back to fit the A3000 properly, I think (though
I think it will fit fine if you remove the little card-cage back-plate).  They
still had one more board-rev to go anyways, they said.

	c)  You would think someone would have been "interfacing" re the A3000
by now, even if the A3000 launch had been the first they heard.

	d)  All developers were invited to the mini-devcons.  Many went.  If
they didn't (especially for soemone doing video slot stuff), there's not much
we can do about it.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"