Amiga Auction List Posted

[downix]

@George

While AInc's not bankrupt, they did get kicked out of their offices and all of their business equiptment is now being auctioned off by their old landlords for back-rent.  Oh, and they stopped paying their employees, cut off the employees insurance plan, and are in generally poor shape.

However, as AInc had nothing to do with the OS, this doesn't do much other than entertain the more morbid among us.

[dammy]

Poster: George Date: 2003/6/5 18:12:50

Aaah!
Thankyou zee4. A few posts earlier (downix's and others) kinda gave me the impression that AInc had gone under. Guess me just got confused, sorry
Anyway, than you again for the information, and I feel a little happier about the survival of my favourite computer now ^_^

 Not quiet the best of pictures actually.  With them being locked out of their office because of back rent due, being sued, successfully, by atleast one of their ex-employees for back wages and insurance, it's a question on when the VC will allow them to go under.  Which may or may not be a blessing to Hyperion.

It's not secret that I have had a very low opinion of Amiga Inc for many years now.  After reading what they did to atleast one low level employee, they have well earned my contempt.  Now they are playing hide and seek with the money the court has awarded their now ex-employee, how safe do you feeel about the survival of your Amiga (which I take it is a real Amiga and not a TeronONE mobo?)?

Dammy

[kokigami]

i find this all amazing..... how can we expect this company to actually produce something? A company who dosent have enough funding to pay the rent! They now work from their own homes.. lol..

I would like to point out that Wizards of the Coast was not paying it's employees for some time prior to the release of Magic the Gathering.. a couple years later they bought TSR.

[adavidm]

A bottom of the line 24 port switch and a 2610 router hardly qualifies as the basis for a new ISP! The router is probably a two-port FastEthernet version for connecting to the switch and to AINC's internet gateway, hardly a huge waste of money since 3com or Dell kit is not much cheaper and is a lot nastier.

adavidm

[meerschaum]

I count 50 computers... 32 monitors... but their 'on schedule and rockin' ...

[asian1]

>imac pc loaner

Hello
Who will lend (APPLE???) iMac to Amiga Inc for software development?
APPLE (Steve Jobs) or EPSON or a PC company?

Are they writing "Epson device driver", secretly porting AmigaOS/ AmigaDE to iMac?

Why Murphy keep calling it iMac PC? Is this some sort of Intel X86 PC inside iMac case?

[bloodmoney]

Same #### different owners. It seems no company has any idea how to save amiga, what a shame.

[JoannaK]

asian1: actually it's more accurate term cause:
PC = personal computer

Everydays use for PC is just shortened (stupidified) version of "IBM PC Clone"

Anyhow.. this list does not make a differece.. they don't have money to pay old rents, so it'll must go.

[csirac_]

I knew Amiga was finished... but I had an annoying thought in the back of mind that maybe there was some explanation, but this update confirms it in black and white :/

So it is now blatently obvious that it's up to the community to keep things going.. so I've made up my mind: I will buy an A1/OS4

- Paul

[HMetal]

heard it is possible to recover contents of hard disks (even deleted and written over) using special tools (clean room). Perhaps Genesi / BBRV will buy their computers

FUD.

There is more than one way to wipe a hard disk so that the contents cannot be restored, retrieved or otherwise recovered, no matter what the means you try.

For you to think that the auctioneers would be allowed to sell hard disks with corporate IP on them, shows that you don't know much about IP law.   They would be in a nice fix if they did.

P.S. As sensible people might expect, we have already collected our IP and wiped the drives.  But, go ahead and make sure you bid nice and high.   :lol:

[HMetal]

@George

Amiga is not bankrupt and Amiga have not stopped involvement with AmigaOS 4.0 and beyond. Amiga also still owns the Amiga trademarks.  Anything you hear otherwise is designed to stir up fear, uncertainty and doubt within the Amiga community.

AmigaOS 4.0 is going as planned with Amiga involved with Hyperion and their staff.  See the new AmigaOS 4.0 screenshots for the latest.

[HMetal]

@Downix

Amiga has plenty to do with AmigaOS 4.0 today, even though none of our guys are doing the actual coding.  Check your facts instead of relying on old information.

[HMetal]

I knew Amiga was finished...

I think you'll need to check that crystal ball again soon.

[bhoggett]

@HMetal

Credibility--

[JoannaK]

Edited by Argo: Trolling

Hey.. All I asked if Hmetal now owns the company cause he sure sounds like it?  If that was trolling I'm most amazed  :-)

[fleecy]

Hey there 8-)

the original auction list was compiled when the landlord let the auctioneers into the building before we had removed what we were entitled to remove, which is all IP, hard drives and any other storage media with IP on it and all the prototypes that we were given by our customers and partners.

Bill and Gordon were there yesterday and removed all of the above. The auctioneers turned up near the end with a truck full of other stuff that they are selling as well and complained that there was just rubbish left. In fact they had already been moving in other stock to sell at the auction, so those who think we had 30 HP Vectras, 10s of 21 inch monitors and the like should think again. Almost all Amiga employees used either laptops or their own personal classic Amigas.

Our entire IT sourcing was done using Gateway because we got a deal for using them negotiated into our purchace of Amiga.

Sorry to disappoint the naysayers, although I'm sure they'll turn this into something that proves we are bust, the Augsburg show is a movie set and the moon is a big balloon that gets towed across the sky every so often.

Enjoy the showing of AmigaOS4, enjoy buying Amiga Pocket Packs manufactured and marketed by Microsoft.  A dead body has never done so much.  :-)  :-)  :-)