This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Farewell
Message #62011
As of Friday, August 11, 1989, I am no longer working for Commodore. I have quit to return to college and finish my bachelor's in Computer Science and Psychology. Since I have changed from a struggling tech manager to a poor student :-), I have to drop my compuserve account…
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Commodore's prices
Message #60589
July 26, 1989 TO: All Commodore Authorized Dealers Recently, I have learned of direct solicitations which have come to you from Montgomery Grant, seeking bid responses on Amiga Products. Montgomery Grant is _not_ an authorized dealer and in fact acknowledges in their solicitation that they are a retailer selling to…
Dealer support
Message #59816
From what I understand, you may want to talk to Ed Havlik, Tom's Regional Sales Manager. And on up from there, we have VP Marketing, Ken Weber. Then there's Harry Copperman, President US Company. And of course his boss, Mehti Ali. Irving Gould can only be reached via his cellular…
Commodore's marketing
Message #59815
I can't give away too much, but witness more changes at Commodore. The new VP of Marketing, Lloyd Mahaffey, has commissioned 16M dollars of commercials centered around the Amiga. Mostly on TV and paper. Something about the 2Q89 (holiday season) having 150/250 GRPs (for you advert types), which translates to…
CBM Red Ink
Message #59808
Before I start on this long message, I'd like you to take it with a grain of salt. Judge us on our actions and not our words. There will be checkpoints along the way for everyone to determine how well we're doing/conforming to the plan. The following is excerpted from…
The resistor costs a fraction of a dollar, while the motherboard will cost anywhere from $200-$500 to replace (depending on who does it). You be the judge. However, all A2620s should have this bus transceiver resistor installed on the m'bd, since it helps avoid contentions with other devices like the…
True. Many of the staff have been transferred to other areas, especially the Education Division (growing about as fast as CATS, about about 100% a quarter!) More news as it happens. andre
Gabe, agreed. If I could pick any one of the 3 choices, it would be choice 2, networks. Nobody disagrees on that. However, I do not believe that the A3000 and 1.4 are vital, since the outsider just knows that they want a solution, not a version number. That's more…
I for one don't believe that this will change any of the things that Mr. Copperman has gotten a commitment on and is in the process f planning. Namely those are new targeting (education/government), more advertising, and more development. Again, we can only see and watch and wait. They may…
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#A2088 – Many Drives
Message #56264
AS far as I know, it's no possible, because while you have A: and B:. would the third drive be C:? No, that's a hard drive designation. Does anyone know something more about MS-DOS as to shed some light on the mystery of the third disk drive? I do know…
Advertising is a must. The other companies have their names as recognition symbols, we do not (yet). Again, it is not necessary to do a smear campaign when you have a product that is valid on its own rights. Or do you believe that the Amiga cannot stand on its…
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New, More Advertising
Message #56262
In message (Allen Mitts) writes: >Me? Id' cut the payroll of the guy who said 'we're too big to worry about >those little customers.' Done. His name was Jack Tramiel. That was easy. Poof. andre
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Validating???
Message #56261
Now backup your hard disk ASAP, or you could risk losing it again. Please do that soon, because a hard disk is a terrible thing to waste. andre
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#Vendor Question
Message #56260
Yep, and when we talked to them we got the same deranged mail order reply: how much will you pay us to sell it? will you do all our advertising? will you cover all our costs? will you bail us out if we do something wrong? Will you eat our…
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Vendor Question
Message #56259
I reiterate: If an Amiga Reseller is advertising prices other than list or 'call' in magazines and operating through mail order format, they are BY DEFINITION unauthorized dealers. The key in this statement is ADVERTISING PRICES OTHER THAN LIST OR CALL. Hope that helps. Easy rule of thumb. andre
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2000/Fat Agnus
Message #55471
If he does sloppy work and IS an Authorized service center for Commodore, I'd kiss your toes (well, not really, just symbolically, like by emailing you a kiss with destination attached [but I digress] 🙂 to find out who he is. ENow morethan ever we're concerned about satisfaction and quality…
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Digitizer
Message #55004
Check with a company called R&DL Productions. They sell a package that includes the Summagraphics tablet, and they might sell the driver separately. I don't know. The product is called AProDraw, and I think you can find it in Amazing Computings Hardware Guide, or AmigaWorld's Hardware Guide (the March 1989…
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Agnes tool
Message #55002
I'm not competely up to date on what changes with each motherboard, except that I think 4.5 had a change to accommodate the A2620 (a bus transceiver resistor was added) and 6.0 moves up to the 1M Agnes and 1M chips for RAM, bringing the total down from 32 chips…
#Amiga ArcNet
Message #54928
The net it's being written for is the arcnet, which CBM bought the license from Ameristar (I believe). Arcnet is better than ethernet in larger topologies, because the token-passing scheme gets more efficient (and thus the transfer rate doesn't erode) as opposed to ethernet, where more nodes mean more overhead…
Professional Page
Message #54608
From what I understand, the Compugraphics fonts are outline fonts, which to me means postscript. I guess that I will have to read the PP V1.3 notice in more detail, and also we'll need to hold on speculation until something definite (ie: on paper) comes from Gold Disk.
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#AMI IN FEDERAL OFFICES
Message #52670
Understood, but sweeping comments are rather crude. If there's a question about what's offensive, try substituting group names. For example, instead of saying "CBM knows nothing", try replacing CBM with Jews, Blacks, Post Office people, Bus Drivers, etc. It's a pretty effective test, if you get the grammar context right.…
Hmm…as mentioned before, please bring this up with me in eplex, stating details such as geographic location, etc. I will forward you to the proper region (unless it's the southeast, and then you've come to the right place.) Again: any requests goto eplex: 72077,3301. Th
I'm on. For the record, if it has to do with asking me some information that no one else here will be interested in, I *IMPLORE* you to send it via eplex to my box! The chances are too great that it will get lost inthe shuffle should I not…
Right. Final word: The customer knows best and is always right. (But sometimes it is a little hard to swallow, especially when someone is being rude. Remember who you're talking to on the other end: they're human too and a lot of times are innocent. Dispense wrath with discretion.) andre
I have not yet been in contact with Edwin Roos. If he does not have my number please have him contact me ASAP with his applications and I'll see what I can do. Can't help directly for any of the locations you mention except for the one in Texas. As…
Contact Joe Marlino, National Technical Manager (also NE adjunct) or Ken Weber (VP Sales) at Commodore Corporate. It might help a lot to send a letter to these people, but if you want to call, the number is 215-431-9100. Best of luck to you. If it were in my region…
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of the updated whap…please? Sorry to get off the track… 🙂 andre
I'm not going to debate with you on the subjects, but I will pass your comments on. I say we're doing those things; look at Usenet, look at Bix, but we cannot be everywhere. And if I don't get off the defense soon I feel that I may start tiring…
That would be disastrous. Incompatibility is a death kiss unless you have the dollars to withstand a new ramp up and user acceptence. Then everyone would go around saying the Amiga was incompatible with itself; that programs written for the Amiga don't work on the AMiga, etc, etc… Believe me,…
That's why we recommend hitting vertical marketing magazines like Videographer, Computer Reseller News, Computer Learning, the Village Voice, and so forth. Advertising in these magazines is astronomically less expensive, reaches a specific market, and gets more feedback that pays off instead of people who are just in for the curiosity.…
In ALL A2000HDs and A2500 currently being shipped. I hope. Trust me. :-* Supposedly we ran out completely of both stocks and the new ones that came in were populated with these chips. andre PS: The trips were both good and bad. Right now I am glad to be back.
CBM United States CBM Canada. They are not the same organization. Other than by product and name. andre
If you want to go through the mail, you can get the part from Commodore US for US$130.80 + $3 postage to Commodore, Dept C, 1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester, PA 19380. In fact, you can get anything (other than PC boards or motherboards) at this address. Get the part…
Like I said elsewhere, our Far East brothers are shoveling the sand as fast as they can. I estimate that we will have things under better control in about a month, estimated. I have no hard facts to prove this. All I do know right now is that we ordered…
Would you like some examples of parallel announcements that had no supply? How about the rationing necessary in the early days of Mac IIs, PS/2, 80386, PC AT, Compaq 286, cabbage patch dolls, Yugos, Pet Rocks, and so forth… When you make a claim like "I seriously doubt you would…
The semiconductor facilities are in Hong Kong or Taiwan, I believe. I think Germany falls in the Western Bloc, last I checked. Of course, that could also be Farther East, but I'm rather rusty in Geography. andre
Probably you misread their frustration as defensiveness. Privately many of them were mad at how slow the budget and time was getting allocated in making improvements in the product. I like it a lot for simple correspondence since the Glossary feature makes writing easy. I hate mailmerge because it seems…
When you may lose a sale of several thousand units and be able to get the mileage of using the publicity of "MSS being used by the Fortune 100 Company Cogswell Cogs" etc. That makes your priorities twitch a little. Let's hope things come through. So far they have been…
As a good friend of mine said, "It all comes out in the wash." But from the smell of him I don't think he's ever done laundry. 🙂 andre
The guy who is selling to MG has tons of inventory and bills to pay, so if they are dumping product, then no, they don't cut their own throat short term. It's the long term ones that hurt. andre
There is nothing you can do. So say the FTC: shutting them down are grounds for a suit on restriction of trade. They are, as far as I know, selling the machines for new. And then people say are computers are no good because there's no support from us. Sigh.…
I wouldn't be too sure. We've been working on deals for about 2 years to put Amigas into Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal, etc. Because you don't hear about it doesn't mean they don't exist. Non disclosure, you know. When I was a user group officer and heard about the Star…
Hee hee, sorry, was that a freudian slip? Of course I should have said CBU. And Frech is actually German, but someone changed the spelling a few generations ago, and well, for lack of anything better to do, it stuck. But the family-name books will denote it as german. But…
A2630? Ahem, no comment. :-] High res card, faster stuff, etc., it's there and it's coming, but no specifics. It's no use to worry about something that isn't materialized yet, unless you're a hardcore type-A, you know. andre
Are you serious? Ben? Funny, I don't think I saw his name in this thread on the header! Well, I should have expected it; when I'm not around he'll feel free to sling around insults. :-> He must have changed the header to your name. 🙂 Sorry the lightning fell…
Recently I discovered that there is a reason as to why the bridgeboard is designed like it is. If you want something standard I suggest you get one, since it is exactly standard (as can legally be) to an XT or AT. The speeds and drive capacities, therefore, are exactly…
They are manufactured in the far east (this does not mean Maine!) and shipped to the entire universe. Or so it seems. Actually the 100 figure is spare parts; the rest of the thousands are in the 2000 series. andre
Like always, the indians at MSS know what's going on, but the management hs other thoughts. The company is run by conservatives who believe that a product out there is usually ok, with or without bugs. I got him to believe otherwise; now let's see what happens. Other people at…
We don't have the money and resource tracking that IBM had during its Grey Market Attempted Shutdown. They couldn't do it either. Montgomery Grant stated somewhere that they were selling at rock bottom for as long as possible for primarily one reason: to revenge Commodore for cutting them off, and…
Yes, I know Citicorp. They also own my Visa card. 🙂 Get me the particulars in eplex or somehow. I'm very sure CMB would be willing to work with you, as long as you ASK. Believe it or not most people still prefer the Jewish Mother Method for asking: "How…
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