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Article: 65918 of comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: koops@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Luke Koops)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Future Of Amiga Chipset (read this, it's new)
Date: 4 May 1994 04:05:58 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada
Lines: 60
I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is doing some work with
Scala. (Media Innovations, Martin Rickets)
Here are some of the things that were said:
SCALA has bought a 6 month supply of machines. They pretty much bought
everything that was left at most of the North American warehouses.
Scala is doing work with GENERAL INSTRUMENTS. General Instruments is the
largest manufactuturer of cable converters, pay-tv decoders and set-top
boxes. Scala will be doing the presentation screens for a new series of
set-top boxes for General Instruments... with none other than the Amiga.
SONY will be making CD32's, or something compatable. They want to licence
the chipset from whoever may have it.
AMERITECH, a large US based telephone company willalso be doing things with
Scala and the Amiga. More uses for the chipsets.
SAMSUNG wants to make something as well (and as a former reseller for Samdung
this may not be a good idea ;)
HEWLETT-PACKARD apparently wants to licence the chipset as well.
NEWTEK IS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE. Something I have guessed for a while.
It has now been confirmed. I guess they have been giving away too many free
video tapes (I know I have been ordering 1 a week for the last year) I think
they have hyped themselves a little too much, and buying 6 years worth of
advertising in AmigaWorld probably was not a good idea.
Where this leaves us, the Amiga users as a whole, I do not know. Commodore
Canada and all remaining have been told to continue as usual. But when they
run out of machine, who knows. I know A LOT of united states dealers have
signed on for machines from Canada. This will suck the stock right down.
I have been selling at least 1 CD32 a day here in my 350000 person city
in South Western Ontario. I am not sure how the rest of the world is doing
with them, but I hope it's at least as well as me in that regard.
If Sony is going to be making CD32's, I hope they pick up 4000's as well.
Maybe Jim-bob Drew and the rest of the crowd he's gathered can do some
prototype A5000's to actually get the Amiga name back on some machines.
It would be nice to show them off to Sony.
So there ya go Jimmy, give Sony and HP a call and tell them what you are
up to. It just might be a good idea.
-Greg Scott
(see my name on the Multi-Media Muscle Poster? the one with the Terminator
skeleton? cool eh? <----- brag line, sorry ;)
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Greg Scott national amiga
koops@gaul.csd.uwo.ca 519-645-2144