Will we be forgiven ? The walker obituary

[The_Editor]

@ Karlos ..

Ithink your right ..

thinking back,  I recall asking if my blizzard 060 would be able to fit on a connector as I had paid a whopping £600 for it and another £100 for the SCSI controller.  I remarked that if I had to buy another card they could stick the walker up their jacksies !!

[MayhemMaybe]

I actually think the parent company going belly-up had more to do with the Walker's demise than any Amiga Community member comparing the case to a vacuum cleaner.

[daydreamer]

I agree, I think it was more to do with the Parent company. Let's face it we're not really that much for a bunch of aesthetics are we? We're more interested in the gubbins that go inside the machine. If it was Amiga there would've been a market no matter how mad it looked. Mind you I can see similarities in some of Apple's designs...

[ltstanfo]

Merlancia will never do anything with Walker.  I believe you are correct that Ryan (he is NOT a doctor)owns the prototype but I don't know about the design.

In any event, Merlancia, such as it was touted to the community, no longer exists.  They closed shop long ago.  You can still find some of their excess inventory on ebay however...look for Kristina Kreations (Ryan's mother).

Regards,
Ltstanfo

[ltstanfo]

MayhemMaybe wrote:
I actually think the parent company going belly-up had more to do with the Walker's demise than any Amiga Community member comparing the case to a vacuum cleaner.

I tend to agree with you but at the time, AT was very surprised at the "negative" press that the Walker received.  While there were certainly many in the community who loved the concept (and the looks), the AT "Hoover" did in fact turn a lot of people off.  I recall at one AMIGA in St. Louis show where the question was asked if it would be possible to buy just the motherboard and not the case.

In any regard, the Walker is dead, along with another worthy "could have been", the Boxer (which I greatly preferred over the Walker).

Regards,
Ltstanfo