Eagle computer question?

From: Hans Pufal <hansp_at_citem.org>
Date: Sun Jul 6 17:21:00 2003

George R. Gonzalez wrote:

> As I recall, Many many years ago (around 1982?) I read in InfoWorld that
> Eagle Computer's president met a tragic end, just after the company went
> public, or get a big bunch of financing, or somesuch. Something along the
> lines of his car ran off the road after a celebratory party. If you've
> driven Hwy 17 at night (between San Jose and Scotts Valley), you know it's a
> real damp-armpits trip, even when sober. About 300 twisty turny bits,
> rising and falling, no streetlights, few guardrails, steep dropoffs.

It was'nt HW17 it was actually in Los Gatos, the road along the lake
(what is that called....? me truning 50 also ;-) not too many yards
from the Eagle office. I remember the event, the year would be a year or
two later than you cite IIRC.

It was the day they went public, he drove his brand new ferrari into a
tree. I lived right down the road from there at the time and passed that
tree many, many times.

Another Eagle story is that IBM started leagal actions to sue them for
BIOS copyright infringement. I was at Gavilan at the time and we visited
Eagle to discuss the IBM issues. As I recall it Eagle told us that IBM
had some form of binary code analyser which had shown up some relativly
isolated common code sequences. I do not recall the outcome but I think
Eagle survived after that, but not for long...

   -- hbp
Received on Sun Jul 06 2003 - 17:21:00 BST