What the F***!

[coldfish]

I hope the CUSA has some other plans in mind beside competing as yet another Win/Linux based clone distributor. Else I predict this ride will be over in a very short term.

Maybe the plan is basically to continue as a cool custom case maker? And what better way to get some startup publicity than to grab a classic name badge. Clever idea actually.

I don't mean to, and I'm not trying to disparage CUSA, but I can't help but be reminded of another startup that was once related to a company/hobby that I also currently partcipate in.

Here's a link to that very old and odd story.

http://www.barthworks.com/cars/electriccars/1979solargen.htm

re Solargen:  What is it with Americans and wood-grain on station wagons?  

[coldfish]

You mean everyone doesn't do it?  

After thinking about it for a minute, I think I came up with a nice answer....

It's just a continuation of our early history and style from the begining of trans American travel when our wagons were actually made out of wood.  ... like this.....

http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch:1&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&gs_rfai=&q=wagon%20conestoga

Plaz

I assumed it was something like that. Funny how that cultural heretage can carry over to printed woodgrain cladding on a car.

Still wood-grain on the exterior of a car is just... weird.
 
In the 60s-70's there was a fad of gluing vinyl (leather-ette) on car roof exteriors here in Aus (and the US), it usually resulted in water getting between the vinyl and sheet metal and rusting the roof out.

[coldfish]

The main problem I have with CUSA is the attempt to market something off-the-shelf (Linux + keyboard PC) as a  "NEW Amiga". This leads one to be naturally cynical of the underlying motives.

If on the other hand they invest time and actual money in more-than off-the-shelf concepts such as custom cases, then you have to give them some credit for going a bit further than making a quick/easy buck on nostalgia.

Wait and see, I guess?

I remember being a bit wary of Cloanto repackaging the freely available WinUAE emulator and calling it AmigaForever.  CUSA could learn a lot by modelling themselves after Cloanto's efforts and motives, or they could just be in it to scrape a quick buck off overly sentimental, nostalgic suckers?