Nostalgic note [Was: Re: Amiga 500, 2000 serial ports: The same?] - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Dec 1999

-----Original Message-----
From: Owen Robertson &lt;mrdos(a)swbell.net&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Nostalgic note [Was: Re: Amiga 500, 2000 serial ports: The
same?]

...
 >BUT, how many of those users left *AFTER* the
Gateway/Amiga, Inc. made the
...
  *BIG*
announcement :^(  From where I'm sitting thier announcement of a
NextGen Amiga did more to kill the platform than anything.

Of course I'm *REAL* tempted to go into that brand new Gateway store a
couple miles from me and tell them I want to buy an Amiga 1200. 

What exactly did Gateway do to Amiga?

They bought the rights to the Amiga hardware and software from a defunct
predecessor, made grandiose announcements (about new products, porting the
OS, and reviving the line), got everybody's hopes up, and then dropped the
whole thing because it was too little too late and/or uneconomic to serve
the declining base of Amiga users. Same thing that Amiga International,
Escom, and several others have done since Commodore went bankrupt. Gateway
just hurts more because they were: A) the most recent  B) rich enough to be
a credible hope  C) possibly the last, best hope. I can't imagine another
major company bidding on the rights to the Amiga after so many others have
failed.
A sad end to a nice OS that still multi-tasks better than most.

Mark (A1000, A500, A3000, A1200) Gregory