3 Sep
1998
3 Sep
'98
11:16 a.m.
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(a)msn.com>
- ClubWin/CW7
- MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
- Preserver of "classic" computers
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