18 Jun
2004
18 Jun
'04
6:06 a.m.
And thusly Vintage Computer Festival spake:
:)
Cheers,
Bryan Pope
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I think it's a little more then that. At the recent Commodore Expo in
Louisville, KY, Greg Nacu (distributor of the IDE64) sold the nine IDE64's
he brought for $150 each plus all the Micromys PS/2 adapters for $40 apiece.
LOADSTAR sold quite a few of the email disk subscriptions for $35 each.
I was going to buy a Retro-Replay + RR-Net card for $45 until I won it.. ;)
That doesn't include all of the used stuff being sold there...
One thing that has not endeared Tulip to the
Commodore community was an
attempt to grind down on trademark enforcement. First it was the
Commodore name and logo, and then the system ROMs, and there is also some
argument over the IP of the 64 itself. Apparently a collabourator called
Ironstone is developing a new 64 of their own, separate from the C-1 being
created by Jeri Ellsworth, which is nearing completion. There is worry that
Ironstone/Tulip will clamp down on new hardware development as a result.
So these people are fighting over a market worth, at most, $10,000? I
think they've already spent two times that in legal fees. Anyone have any comments? This seems like the C64
community is going to get
stomped on. (None of this affects the Amiga, AFAIK, which is not owned
by Tulip.)
I think the Tulip guys have a real success story on their hands here.
Bill Gates had better start worrying.