I almost got one of these, back in the day. Probably should've.
As far as I can recall, rumor had/still has that these were Commodore prototypes (something like the A3000jr, or one of the other mystery machines? I'm just pulling a model guess out of my posterior, knowing I'm almost certain to be wrong), and had the risk of shipping with buggy/prerelease ROMs, or other such issues? That's what I was told, and I wound up with a 2000 instead- whose 2090 kept me occupied for months until I determined it wouldn't A. By the time I scrounged a 2091, I was caught up in school, and the last of the local scene had fallen apart... while tech-support for friends, relatives, and myself (trying to assemble a killer x86 for OS/2, which became a 4-year saga) took over what little 'hacking time' I had.
If I remember properly, these were around about one year before I was able to convince the folks to spring for an ISP (and many others were probably in a similar situation, or waiting to justify the cost to themselves)... so if they *were* an independent product, it was just that little bit too early for folk to look them up online and find out.
