Gary Hildebrand wrote:
> Escom went on to become Amiga.de. They are building A1200's and some
> A4000's from old parts stock held up by the creditors to Commodore.
Not exactly, Escom bought the Amiga in 1995 for roughly $10 million and
formed a new division called Amiga Technologies. When Escom went into
liquidation during 1996 the Amiga was put on sale again. After a year of
legal wranglings, Gateway (Gateway 2000 as they were known at the time)
bought the Amiga and renamed Amiga Technologies as Amiga International.
After two years of vapourware Gateway sold the Amiga (minus the patents) to
a startup called Amino, staffed by formed Amiga employees.
I've constructed a basic timeline of who owned Amiga, when:
1982 -1984 Amiga Corp. (the original development team headed by Jay
Miner)
1984 - 1994 Commodore
1995 - 1996 Escom (set up the Commodore and Amiga subsiduary)
1997 - 1999 Gateway (developed the ill-fated Amiga MCC- this technology
is due for release as the AOL TV)
1999 - Present Amino buy the Amiga trademarks and rename themselves Amiga
Corp.
You are correct about the current Amigas being constructed from old
Commodore parts. For those who want a modern Amiga, the BoXeR is to be
released soon (utilising a 68k or PPC processor). There is also the
Developers machine for the next generation Tao-based OE.
For a more in-depth look at these events take a look at my site.
--
Gareth Knight
Amiga Interactive Guide
http://amiga.emugaming.com
Received on Sun May 21 2000 - 08:49:08 BST