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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Hardware News => Topic started by: redrumloa on July 26, 2002, 08:13:23 PM
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Read about it here: (http://www.centsible.com/l.html)
500+ brand new C=ommodore 8000 computers, pallets of keyboards and other new stock were all dumped into 40 yard containers heading for the landfill. What a waste:-(
Before anyone gets upset with Centsible.
From: Centsible Software (support@centsible.com)Subject: Re: 400 Brand New Commodore Computers in a warehouse!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Date: 2002-07-23 20:27:21 PST
We contacted them immediately after we decided to turn down the offer.
Thay were already aware of the stuff and did not want it.
We contacted: Vintage computers, Computer Bargain Store and
the C64 and More Store. These were the only three West Coast
Commodore related companies that we were aware of.
Scott
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Excuse me, but who calls those new computers? They were developed in the 80's and died there (unlike Amigas which were developed in the 80's and died in the 90's).
This certainly deserves posting, but new(?) C=(?) computers(?)?
And I thought the Village was stuck in a chronoclastic infindibulum.
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If something is unopened and in it's original box it is indeed new. It's called NOS (New Old Stock)
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:-( It's difficult to put into words what an asinine decision that was. To think they survived all these years and then end up trashed anyway. :evil:
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sigh this is sick :-(
They could atleast give them away.... there is alot of ppl out there who would really want one.
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I would have liked one as a collectors item. I'm guessing those were PC compatibles, that never really turned out to be very compatible though.
plaz
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KILL THE BASTARDS THAT DID IT!!!!! :-x
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Yup the back lable they show looks suspiously like it says PC1, a product of such high quality that the RF shielding was made from cardbord with a layer of "tin" foil.
Wm.
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AHH!! The Ignorance!! All they had to do was offer them at the cost of shipping, and they would have been snatched up in a heartbeat by fellow retrocomputing geeks.
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It would be nice IF I live in CA/USA... :-(
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Somebody is an IDIOT. We need some real journalism.
First of all the Centsible page is not only in jibberish, it leaves out facts, and seems to mislead.
For example....
:-x Who is this "PC Hardware company"?
:-) Why is no contact info given for "The Management Company"?
:-x After being put in dumspters, where did they go, specifically? I think Calif disallows landfilling such things.
We need a campaign against this company and maybe Centsible for NOT doing more to alert people BEFORE they turned down the lot. There should have been public pressure to donate them to any interested parties.
:-) Also these don't look like CBM 8000's to me.
http:// http://www.centsible.com/l.html
They look like the CBM Colt (their IBM clone). Hard drives? The CBM 8000 didn't use them. Even the screen was all wrong. The case sure as hell was wrong.
The only thing I can think is that Centsible doesn't know one machine from another. Kinda sad when they took the time to put the pics on their site. But it would fit-- people who let this stuff happen (IE they could have rallied users via the net) are the same types who would't know an x86 box from a 6502 box (OK, so the processors do have a lot in common but...)