AO Interview - Dave Haynie

[Kronos]

@red

>The closest I got was Kronos' heckling

My pleasure  :-D


Don't know, but somehow Dave sounds like on of those former 1-hit-wunders
playing his only song in barn-discos to small crowds overand over again.

Everything he touched after C= turned out to be a complete failure
(hope his current company doesn't follow that trend),sohe has only his
old fame to clingon  :-(

[Kronos]

@Mikey_C

5000000 A1200s :lol:  :lol:

220000 sold under C= and 190000 produced at ESCOM (lots of them never sold).

The A500 was sold about 4500000 times, but most of them only after the prices
dropped to console-level.

And what has sold them were the chips and the C=-badge,not some obscure
college-rock-references inprinted on the PCBs  :-P

Or do you think BE would have sold more units if they had been designed by Dave ?

Both Gerald and Dave did/do use pre-existant chips (Gerald, 3rd-party ones,
Dave had them inhouse). Both build great HW with them,but also none of
that HW was ever 100% perfect (or why do you think we get all the "my xxxx
doesn't work with my revision_y Azz00 ?).

[Kronos]

@Calen

The A1200 was introduced in Frankfurt (WOC) october or november 92 (and yes
you could pick one up and take it home from there). I got mine dezember 24
(no,not a present ;-)  ),so yes the A1200 had a full sales-year by the end of 93.