29 Aug
2000
29 Aug
'00
12:32 a.m.
GMT Microelectronics. http://www.gmtme.com
What do I win??
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Richard A. Cini, Jr.
Congress Financial Corporation
1133 Avenue of the Americas
30th Floor
New York, NY 10036
(212) 545-4402
(212) 840-6259 (facsimile)
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Braun [mailto:nerdware@laidbak.com]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 10:01 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Brochure re: CSG liquidation
A little C= trivia on the subject -- after C= went belly-up and the
plant was vacated, what then-fledgling but now-very famous and
extremely successful company bought the Westchester facility to
start it's empire?
Paul
Paul Braun WD9GCO
Cygnus Productions
nerdware_nospam(a)laidbak.com
I don't
know if anyone saw this on comp.sys.cbm, but it's an
interesting brochure. It's the auction notice brochure from 1994 for the
Commodore Semiconductor Group. I work for the asset-based financing
division of the sixth-largest bank in the US, and we've used Ross-Dove
for our auctions and liquidations. It's a nice brochure with detailed
pictures.
Sad, none the less, but a great brochure.
http://archive.dovebid.com/company/archive/commodore.htm
Yeah, I downloaded all the images. Very informative and a rare look into
what MOS Technology became.
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ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu
-- Wagner's music is better than it sounds. -- Mark Twain
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29 Aug
29 Aug
11:09 a.m.
Well,
I wasn't aware of that one.... were they the ones that bought the
chip factory? I was actually referring to world HQ in Westchester,
which Ryan Brooks correctly identified as the QVC shopping
network.
I've bought stuff from them, and every time I think about my Vic-20,
C-64, and my Three Amigos, errr..... Amigas.
They sell a lot of electronics. Too bad C= died before they could
set up a marketing agreement with QVC........
Unfortunately, you don't win anything except the warm, fuzzy
feeling that you know a lot of relatively useless minutiae.
Congratulations!!!
GMT Microelectronics. http://www.gmtme.com
What do I win??
==========================
Richard A. Cini, Jr.
Congress Financial Corporation
1133 Avenue of the Americas
30th Floor
New York, NY 10036
(212) 545-4402
(212) 840-6259 (facsimile)
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Braun [mailto:nerdware@laidbak.com]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 10:01 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Brochure re: CSG liquidation
A little C= trivia on the subject -- after C= went belly-up and the
plant was vacated, what then-fledgling but now-very famous and
extremely successful company bought the Westchester facility to
start it's empire?
Paul
Paul Braun WD9GCO
Cygnus Productions
nerdware_nospam(a)laidbak.com
Paul Braun WD9GCO
Cygnus Productions
nerdware_nospam(a)laidbak.com
I
don't know if anyone saw this on comp.sys.cbm, but it's an
interesting brochure. It's the auction notice brochure from 1994 for
the Commodore Semiconductor Group. I work for the asset-based
financing division of the sixth-largest bank in the US, and we've used
Ross-Dove for our auctions and liquidations. It's a nice brochure with
detailed pictures.
Sad, none the less, but a great brochure.
http://archive.dovebid.com/company/archive/commodore.htm
Yeah, I downloaded all the images. Very informative and a rare look into
what MOS Technology became.
--
----------------------------- personal page:
http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University *
ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu
-- Wagner's music is better than it sounds. -- Mark Twain
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11:46 a.m.
I wasn't aware of that one.... were they the ones
that bought the
chip factory?
Yup.
Good thing for us Red Commies; GMT is none other than former CSG management
and engineers.
--
----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu
-- I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. -- Joe Walsh -------------------
6:37 p.m.
New subject: Zycad Mach 1000 simulation engine, socal
Today a bunch of stuff rolled into the salvage yard at UCI (UC Irvine in
Calif). Perhaps of interest to somebody on the list was a big tower, maybe
5' high, Zycad Mach 1000 simulation engine. It appears intact, manuals,
tapes, etc. but that won't last, next viewing date is Thursday. Maybe
related I found a dozen or so Xylinx (sic) protoboards, size of a punch
card half of it open, 2 digit display, couple buttons, some kind of serial
looking connection, runs off a 9v battery, big socket in the middle with a
square chip in it of the same name. Sorry to be doing this from memory, but
it was a quick look, and the protoboards are still in my trunk.
30 Aug
30 Aug
6:40 a.m.
New subject: Zycad Mach 1000 simulation engine, socal
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10:53 a.m.
New subject: Zycad Mach 1000 simulation engine, socal
Mike wrote:
tapes, etc. but that won't last, next viewing date
is Thursday. Maybe
related I found a dozen or so Xylinx (sic) protoboards, size of a punch
Tony wrote:
Xilinx are, of course, well-known for FPGA chips.
I took the "(sic)" to mean that they specifically are NOT from Xilinx,
but another company with a similar name. However, I don't know any more
about it than you do, so I could well be wrong.
2:20 p.m.
New subject: Zycad Mach 1000 simulation engine, socal
tapes, etc.
but that won't last, next viewing date is Thursday. Maybe
related I found a dozen or so Xylinx (sic) protoboards, size of a punch
Xilinx are, of course, well-known for FPGA chips.
card half of it open, 2 digit display, couple
buttons, some kind of serial
looking connection, runs off a 9v battery, big socket in the middle with a
square chip in it of the same name. Sorry to be doing this from memory, but
These sound like FPGA demonstration boards. The FPGA is the 'big chip'.
The connector is to link it to a PC (probably using a special 'download
cable' at TTL levels -- I doubt if it links to a serial port) to program
the chip. The displays and buttons got to I/O pins on the FPGA so you can
have user inputs and outputs to the logic circuit you program into the FPGA.
-tony
6:10 p.m.
New subject: Zycad Mach 1000 simulation engine, socal
So far no interest in the Zycad Mach 1000, certainly is a cool looking
thing to end up at a scrapper.
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