On 2014-07-26 19:47, smf wrote: >> To my knowledge - we the CBM community as a whole - only know of about >> 6 unique CBM C900 systems that still exist today. There may be more >> systems around - but these are the ones that we know of. > > Some say 200 > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.sys.amiga.misc/zKaOc3wdgAU/5dNXLJN6pWIJ > > > Some say 500 > > http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/900.html > > "Eventual Fate Scrapped prototype; project officially discontinued in > favour of the newly-acquired Lorraine, later becoming the Amiga. Some > models, however, were released in Europe as development systems at > around US$4000 apiece (!), even though the actual computer was never > publicly released. 500 units produced." > I've never found anything that would indicate that they were sold in the way described above - anyone ? Quiting a former Commodore employee who contributed this information about our CBM C900: " Commodore built this prototype UNIX workstation/server computer in the same time frame as the Amiga and their PC-Clone and then decided that they only had production capacity for two out of three, and the CBM900 lost. All the approx 300-500 prototypes were recalled for destruction, but due to some kind of "mistake" this particular machine, which was on loan to a favored customer in Denmark, never made it back. The machine resurfaced when this company cleaned up their basement, and sent 3 euro-pallets of Commodore artifacts our way. " Reference: http://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Commodore/CBM900 > > I've just looked and not found anything specific that expands on > "development systems". I may have assumed it meant for developing Amiga > software, but I thought I'd seen something before. > Ok - I just interested in getting the history right /Uffe Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2014-07-27 00:00:02
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