My evening with Commodore USA, LLC

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Without pointing fingers, some people are still launching personal attacks in this thread. TOS clearly prohibit personal attacks. You may dislike a product as much as you wish but if you resort to personal attacks, you will receive infractions.

Last warning.

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Very nice job, Red!  You say in the lead you aren't a journalist, given the piece you might want to rethink that!

Bob

Thank you for the kind remarks. I'm glad to see some people appreciated it:)

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Did you mention Aeon, Hyperion, Acube, to him and what they are doing with X1000 etc... Or does he just not care?

I don't remember the name Acube coming up. The X1000/OS4 project came up and he said they were contacted and (me paraphrasing) that this is not a viable option because there is no product near completion and doesn't look like it will be any time soon. They want to get a product on the shelves this year, not some undetermined time in the future if at all.

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I looked at the article about Barry again and now I know why we thought his satellite TV company wasn't real.  The article was dated 1984!  I didn't go back that far in my research, those records are hard to find on the internet.

When they  mentioned satellite TV I assumed they meant something modern, that was  my mistake. So am I correct in saying that Cabletron was pretty much  squeezed out with the advent of the 90 cm dish and paid subscriptions to  satellite TV? That would be interesting that Barry's business suffered from the same problems at the same time as the original Commodore.

So much wrong in this statement, where to start?

Cabletech  was a developmental partner with General Motors & Hughes  Communications in the small aperture DBS system that later became  DirecTv.

Not so shabby. Click here for 1994 Cabletech news. Barry also founded Club Spectrum in South Florida. I remember hearing about this club, it was crazy busy but ended up going adult due to teen gang problems.

Quite a stretch to take someone who founded multiple successful companies and made themselves a fortune in the process and dismiss them out of hand as some unknown hack from the 80's.

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Exactly Duce, well said. I don't wish to be rude, but reading excitable comments from red/dam my about how Barry is going to be doing Superbowl TV ads, his own AppStore, and dreams of a global Commodore/Amiga relaunch, my first instinct is to cringe.

I've made excitable comments? I don't think I've done any fist pumping promoting or made any predictions. I've simply posted what I have seen or learned. AFAIR the only prediction I made was something like "things could get very interesting".

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Re-selling PC's with glued-on Commodore badges?   That idea has been tried and failed time and time again since 1994 beginning with Escom.

I can't believe people are paying this guy so much attention.  His business amounts to selling case badges.

Does this look like slapping a glue-on Commodore badge to a PC?

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Nope. Looks like slapping a screw-on Commodore case to a PC.

You would have to admit this takes quite some effort and cost to produce above and beyond slapping a sticker on white box PC, no?