Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!amdahl!kim From: kim@amdahl.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Thank you C-A Message-ID: <5798@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 15:52:40 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.5798 Posted: Tue Mar 3 15:52:40 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 00:36:08 EST References: <8702241749.AA00655@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <179@nis.UUCP> <1471@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 67 [ "Send lawyers, guns, and money ..." ] The following was excerpted and posted on an internal conference topic. With sorrow, I repost it here, without further comment. /kim From the San Francisco Chronicle, February 26th 1987, page 27 ... Adios Amiga: Commodore Goes Another Direction Nirvana for many entrepeneurs is selling out to a large corporation. But what happens after the founder buys the Ferrari? All too often, the small unit is among the first to be dismembered when the new owner falls on hard times. Kodak, for example, bought Garlic Technology in 1985 and is now auctioning off the assets of the small Morgan Hill firm. Or take the more significant case: Amiga Computer, which designed the personal computer of the sam name and was bought by Commodore International in 1984 for $27.1 million. Amiga, based in Los Gatos, has dwindled from 70 to about seven employees through layoffs and voluntary staff departures over the past year. The lease on its building expires march 31, and Commodore intends to consolidate its research and development elsewhere. "In its present form,, Amiga in Los Gatos will cease to exist'" confirmed Mike evans, Commodore's vice president of finance, in an interview. The news comes at an ironic moment, when the rebounding Commodore is about to reaffirm the importance of the innovative Amiga design to its corporate computd Germany. At the Hanover Fair in Germany next week, Commodore will unveil two new Amiga models, Evans confirmed. The Los Gatos group contributed, but the lion's share of the follow-on hardware design was carried out in Pennsylvania and Germany. In addition to the Amiga 1000, a new low-end model called the Amiga 500 is expected to compete with Atari's 520 ST system and may sell for less than $1,000. Sources say the machine has the original model's excellent color and sound. The Amiga 2000, a business-oriented machine at the higher end of the spectrum, is likely to be best known for options that make it compatible with the IBM PC-XT. It has expansion slots that can handle an optional circuit board enabling use of software based on Microsoft's MS-DOS operanting system for IBM-compatible machines. Pricing is not clear, but, may be around $2,000. for a system that includes monitor. David Moore, the Amiga Computer founder who left as a result of the sale, applauds this proof that the Amiga product line will continue. He also notes that most of the original Amiga team have found other good jobs. On the other hand, they are not all together. "We had some plans for doing some pretty exciting things," Morse said. Those are the kinds of things that won't happen." That's all folks! Vern -- UUCP: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ihnp4,seismo,oliveb,cbosgd}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 CIS: 76535,25 [ Any thoughts or opinions which may or may not have been expressed ] [ herein are my own. They are not necessarily those of my employer. ]