Just watched "The Deadbed Vigil"...

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Hi all,

This weekend I got around to watching the Hi8 video put together by Dave Haynie, "The Deathbed Vigil". I downloaded it somewhere, but it is also online at Google Video and other places.

The movie did "get to me" after a while. You follow Dave as he strolls through Commodore a day or two before the final day as he chats with some colleagues and gets some video footage.

Even after all these years you get the feeling of something great being lost, something of what computing was around the 80's and early 90's, and of the spirit of (engineering) people in this line of work around that time in the US.

Absolutely loved watching it - even though really nothing happens ;-)

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Dave also briefly showed his desk with the A3000+ prototype that he was working on. Very nice...

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It was also hard not to think about the future and what Commodore could have done.  There were some truly brilliant people there like 'our boy Elroy' and Julian.  (Kidding, if you read the Commodore book you will get that).

Agreed, so many brilliant people... I wonder where they all ended up and if they succeeded in joining another successful group like this. It's what Haynie comments as well... something like "once in a lifetime you get the opportunity to do something extraordinary, etc etc".

Anyway,

The Commodore Book seems to be sold out at Amazon. Anybody have any tips where I can get my hands on it?