Commodore B-128 series

From: Mr. Self Destruct <more_at_camlaw.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri Jul 18 00:56:33 1997

On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Richard A. Cini, Jr. wrote:
>
> > In January, with advice of counsel, I made two attempts to contact
> > Commodore's US bankruptcy counsel (Commodore had manufacturing operations in
> > West Chester and Norristown, PA) to inquire about purchasing Commodore's
> > remaining intellectual property (i.e., the rights to the schematics,
> > technology, source code, etc.). I never got a response from them. Anyone
> > interested in buying Commodore assets??

I think that all the "interesting" stuff (8-bit era) has been either
pawned off to smaller companies or just dumpstered.

i.e. companies like CMD might have the rights to chip XYZ whereas another
small company would own the schematics, etc.

The source code went to whoever eventually ended up with the "commodore
baggage" whether thats ESCOM, VisCorp, Gateway, or whoever...

> Yeah, I was going to suggest this. That would be cool! To actually OWN
> the rights to a computer I loathed growing up would be ironic at worst.

Little bit easier for me I suppose... I just have to run down to the
stock broker and buy a few shares in Apple... ;)

> Let me know what you find out about this and I would be an interested
> investor.
>
> Sam

Me too! On a sidenote, I once saw an ad for some old shares (worthless of
course) in Commodore (for people to hang on their wall, etc.)

Les
more_at_crazy.rutgers.edu
Received on Fri Jul 18 1997 - 00:56:33 BST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:30:27 BST