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Like, did Viscorp ever actually buy Commodore?

Not sure, I think the deal fell through because either Viscorp couldn't get enough money or because Escom went bankrupt before the deal could be signed or something.

Did Escom only really want the Commodore name and logo?

Again, not sure. I seem to remember Amigans pestering Escom into producing Amiga's again.. Or was that Gateway..?

Also, did Commodore stop production and selling of A1000s before the 500 and 2000 came out?

Don't think so.. Stopped production perhaps, but not before the A500 was in good supply.

Sjees. Has it been so long allready...

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Escom was actually interested in the amiga and produced the A1200s and A4000Ts with the black/red amiga logo.

IIRC not at first. They wanted the C= trademark, but the sale included everything, take it or leave it. After Escom went through their new assets and Amiga fans started mailing; please make new miggies to Escom that Escom looked up and saw a "potential" market.

Gateway didn't do anything at all..

They may not have done anything, but their plans were big. Urban legend has it that the CEO of Gateway 2000 (Tedd Wait?) was angry because nobody told him that the Amiga was up for sale..

After that, they bought it from Escom, they wanted to make the Amiga a succes, but either the bean counters at Gateway or Microsoft made Gateway drop it. (It was said MS told gateway that if they started selling non Windows PC's they woudn't be allowed to sell any of their PC's with Windows)