Just watched "The Deadbed Vigil"...

[mousehouse]

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 ;-)

[tone007]

I couldn't make it halfway through, not because of emotional distress but because of the horribly unsteady camera, it gave me motion sickness.

[scuzzb494]

I couldn't make it halfway through, not because of emotional distress but because of the horribly unsteady camera, it gave me motion sickness.

Probably caused by Aikido... The art of fighting without fighting. Bit obscure that.. Never sure if he was a fan or just had a clever T shirt.

[koshman]

Yeag, it is a great documentary. So nostalgic...

[mousehouse]

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

[kolla]

I couldn't make it halfway through, not because of emotional distress but because of the horribly unsteady camera, it gave me motion sickness.

Dave was just being visionary - later on NYPD Blue picked up this style of filming, and it spread to the point where the movie "The Bourne Ultimatum" was ultimately almost impossible to follow, the cameraman seemingly suffering from multiple sclerosis :lol:

[Tension]

Dave was just being visionary - later on NYPD Blue picked up this style of filming, and it spread to the point where the movie "The Bourne Ultimatum" was ultimately almost impossible to follow, the cameraman seemingly suffering from multiple sclerosis :lol:

Southland is another fine example of camera antics.

[TheGoose]

You know, I've never seen it. Will google it up.

[cecilia]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6995843800661768793#

here ya go

[lsmart]

it gave me motion sickness.

Then don´t eat anything before watching the next Star Trek movie. :roflmao:

[Pentad]

When Dave was walking through Commodore, I wondered how it must have been when the Commodore Vic-20 and Commodore 64 were selling extremely well.  I bet the assembly area was pretty amazing to see.

I also thought about the people from West Chester that must have worked there in the 'glory days' of Commodore and what it must have been like for them when Commodore finally closed.  I bet that was pretty stressful for many families.

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).

Honestly, isn't it amazing the number of brilliant people that worked at Commodore?  Folks like Chuck Peddle, Bob Yannes, Bil Herd, Dave Haynie, the entire Amiga team, Al Chapentier, Charles Winterble, etc...

All those gifted people ruined by a handful of idiots...what a shame.  :-(

To make myself feel better, I like to think that in the alternate universe on the show Fringe, Commodore is doing very well.  :-)

I think both "The Deathbed Vigil" and "On the Edge" made me ponder the 'what ifs' with the future of Commodore.  Ah, what could have been...

Cheers to the spirit Commodore!

-P

[AmigaEd]

Then don´t eat anything before watching the next Star Trek movie. :roflmao:

+1

Star Trek TOS intergalactic turbulence can't hold a candle to what Kirk and the gang apparently experienced in their early beginnings! I guess they must have made some improvements to the suspension system of the Enterprise and their 5 year mission continued.

For your consideration I present...

http://www.startrek.com/boards-topic/32845623/inertial-dampeners_1031025413_32845623

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia_negation

Phasers on stun!
AmigaEd

[tone007]

Then don´t eat anything before watching the next Star Trek movie. :roflmao:

Star Trek?  Not much chance at all of me watching any of that.

[mousehouse]

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?

[jj]

For some reason when I upgraded my Amiga forever premium version I went for a premium again even thoguh nothing had changed between years so have two copies of all the videos on the dvds.  never got around to watching them