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Commodore is dead, long live the Amiga! . . . .
Commodore went bankrupt around 6/94, stockholders
get $0. Escom GbH put money into the
German/Netherlands subsidiary AmigaInternational which was able
to bring up production of A4000 towers in the US
(Norristown, PA) and A1200s in France. Also, in UK they manufacture
a monitor. Escom went bust on general principles and in their
death-throes sold the Amiga assets (tentative, still) to Viscorp.
Viscorp has not come through yet, however, with completion of the
deal and anybody with $20M cash can probably buy the Amiga outright
still, IMO. Viscorp is to make the "ED", amiga inside with
magnetic strip scanner, maybe can browse the internet but maybe
for more specialized service.
Viscorp trades as a pink sheet under
symbol VICP. vistv.com . . .
Myself, I've owned an A1000 since 1986, they have graphics
like a Sega Genesis, computing like a slow 386,
however the user interface is responsive.
The A500 is same
thing electronically, the Amiga 2000 (1986) is like a PC box and
can hold a PC as expansion. . . .
when I went to buy a "real" computer in Sep.1994, bought an
Amiga3000 (1991 vintage)
When they were available for a song. Now you can buy them for
a chord. You can buy used amigas through the usenet group
comp.sys.amiga.marketplace. Lots of free- and share-ware.
. . . Accelerator cards using the motorola 68060, and if things
survive, moving to PPC architecture. |
