Hans:
>>Did you talk to them ? Their website (http://www.gmtme.com/index.html)
>>presents only a few new products - noting of the old stuff.
No, I did not. I got the impression that the intellectual property
associated with the old MOS stuff remained with the bankruptcy estate. GMT
only purchased certain inventory on hand (probably wafers, etching
chemicals, etc.)
> The non-CSG assets stayed with Escom until they filed for receivership
> (bankruptcy), in 1996. The assets were then sold to a Netherlands-based
> company (Commodore NL??), who then sold the Amiga assets to Gateway (the
> Holstein cow people). I don't think that anyone truly knows who owns the
old
> 8-bit assets. Commodore NL sells PeeCee compatible machines under the
> Commodore name, so I'd bank on Gateway owning them. If anyone on this list
> knows anyone at Gateway, now may be the time to use the relationship.
>>I think this is a formidable example for all our old (pre 1980) toys -
Almost all of the small (and >>even some of the big)
manufactiurers/designers have vanished. So who owns the design,
>>the ROM code, the spechial chip designs, the manuals and any other soft ?
One of my other projects is tracing-down IMSAI intellectual property.
IMS sold out to Fischer-Freitas Corp. some time around 1979. My attorneys
are looking into this now; we're retrieving the court docket from the
bankruptcy court in Southern California.
Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini_at_msn.com>
- ClubWin/CW7
- MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
- Preserver of "classic" computers
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