Commodore Shares (was Commodore B-128)

From: Richard A. Cini, Jr. <rcini_at_msn.com>
Date: Fri Jul 18 08:02:20 1997

On Fri, 18 Jul 1997 01:56:33 Mr. Self Destruct <more_at_camlaw.rutgers.edu>
wrote:

>>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.)

        If you come across this ad again, I'd be interested.

        Also, to those who have expressed a passing interest in the remote idea of
acquiring any leftover Commodore intangible assets {assuming that (1) we can
find out who has them and (2) they want only peanuts for them}, I'll be
contacting my attorney today to have him get an update from the US Bankruptcy
Court. Maybe we can trace what happened after ESCOM went bankrupt last July.

        My idea would be to acquire the rights to the source code for the ROMs, the
schematics for their machines, IC masks for any custom chips, PC board
artwork, engineering diagrams, manuals, and service/technical information.
That's it. I don't want any inventory (which by now, I'm sure, has been
dumped) or tooling. I'm up in the air about trademarks, though (I know that
"Commodore" is gone, but the others like VIC, C-64, and PET may still be
available).

        As far as any licenses that Commodore may have had (for games written by
third-parties and sold under the Commodore name, for example), I don't
necessarily care. Commodore's machines were developed in-house with MOS/CSG
parts, so they were owned by the same company ultimately. At worst, we'd need
the IC masks for any custom chips (VIC, VIC-II, SID).
        
        Sounds like the beginnings of a business case...

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