Questo era il motto di C=, oggi e' l'anniversario della fine di C=, colei che rese possibile il miracolo Amiga.
Questo l'annuncio ufficiale:
On Friday April 29 at 4:10 P.M. Commodore filed for liquidation. Their announcement was short:
"Commodore International Limited announced today that it's Board of Directors has authorized the transfer of assets to trustees for the benefit of its creditor and has placed its major subsidiary, Commodore Electronics Limited, into voluntary liquidation. This is the initial phase of an orderly liquidation of both companies, which are incorporated in the Bahamas, by the Bahamas Supreme Court. This action does not affect the wholly-owned subsidiaries which include Commodore Business Machines (USA), Commodore Business machines LTD (Canada), Commodore/Amiga (UK), Commodore Germany, etc. Operations will continue normally."
Queste alcune cifre del fallimento:
1994
* Commodore had a financial damage of $107 million dollars by the end of 1993. But the Amiga was still a very popular machine. In 1992, Commodore sold about 800.000 Amigas (17% more than 1991) and in 1993, it sold 20% less. Big problems made Commodore lose all that money : Fall of Amiga periherals sales (Monitors,Printers etc.), the US $ and its price fall on the major economic markets) and ... Irving Gould (Chariman) & Mehdi Ali (president of the Commodore).
* [March] Commodore, has announced that they were having financial difficulties which might result in bankrupty or liquidation. Commodore had lost $8.2 million. The stock fell to $0.75 per share. The New York stock exchange halted trading of Commodore stock!
* [April] Until the middle of April, Commodore was still producing A4000s, A1200s, and CD32s, and the engineers continued development of the new AAA chipset. AAA was meant to be a big improvement over AGA. 24bit Graphics [resolutions up to 1280x1024], 16bit CD quality audio and other interesting things. AAA was never truly finished.
During the second half of April the production of Amigas stopped. The Philippines factory closed, but left behind a big stock of Amigas. The Scotland factory also stopped the production. Many employees were told by the management to hunt for new jobs...
* [April,22] 15 people were dismissed from West Chester (PA), and the Commodore Semiconductor Group was closed. 15 people were also dismissed from the Norristown factory.
* [April,26] Engineering closed. The site in West Chester, once supported by 1000 employees, now had only 22 people left on it.
April 29th, 1994 - almost an end to an Era
* Commodore International announced that it had been unable to renegotiate terms of its outstanding loans and was closing down the business. The liquidation process lasted for months, owing largely to the far-reaching size of the corporation. In addition, the fact that the company was incorporated in the Bahamas while a large share of the creditors were from the United States made legal proceeding tense and drawn out. On April 20, 1995, almost a full year later, Commodore was sold to the German company ESCOM for approximately 10 to 12.5 million dollars. During the summer of 1996, however, ESCOM also fell into recievership.
* [June] Jay Miner a key creator of the Amiga custom chips dies of kidney problems.
Eventually Gateway 2000 Computers Purchases the Technologies of Commodore/Amiga and Tulip of Holland purchase the Commodore Trademark.
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