Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!astroatc!johnw
From: johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.celerity
Subject: Re: Celerity east coast offices closed?!
Message-ID: <815@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 22:28:39 GMT
References: <8802020804.AA20015@bu-cs.bu.edu> <8802031548.AA08242@SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU>
Reply-To: johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale)
Organization: Astronautics Technology Cntr, Madison, WI
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In article <8802031548.AA08242@SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> ortiz-luis%YALE.ARPA@BU-IT.BU.EDU (Luis Francisco Ortiz) writes:

>   I just called the Boston office and got some kind of switchboard  ...
>From what I understand, (from unnamed sources) they slipped up again
>in production for their new 60000 series machines and they are now in
>such shacky ground financially, that they were forced to close up the
>east coast operations.

From a very small article in EE-times (or was in Info-Rumor??)

C E L E R I T Y   D R O P S   6 4-B I T   P L A N S,  I D L E S   7 0

laid off 70 percent of its 100 person workforce.

"[Celerity] now plans to cease all non-engineering functions anc
concentrate on completein ongoing development of its 2nd gen. product,
in order to sell the remaining operations"

"reduction is sue to a shortage of a specific semiconductor.  The part 
constraint would prevent if rom shipping any Series 6000 [machines] 
1st half."

"The fate of the [C1230 C1260 machines] with an installed base of
approx. 200 systems could not be ascertained by press time."

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Anyone *KNOW* what the missing "part" is?  (I [and others??] have my
[our] idea, but it's speculative!)

DISCLAIMER:  This never happend...I don't exist, and if I did 
		I'd speak only for me...blah...blah...blah

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					John Wardale
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