>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. I don't know, commodore are pretty well known for dumping their cancelled projects in europe (like the C116). It seems commodore germany doesn't like to throw stuff away & would rather sell it. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.sys.amiga.misc/zKaOc3wdgAU/oVq1JAy47K8J Francois Rouaix 30/01/1992 >> In article <14...@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, korc...@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph Korczynski) writes: J> Here some interesting information I found in October 1985 J> Commodore MICROCOMPUTERS. I wonder what ever became of this product? J> A picture is also shown. The case looks very similar to the A2000 style. J> Commodore recently announced plans to market the Commodore 900, a J> multi-user, multi-tasking, Unix-compatible business system that can J> support up to eight work stations. [....] I have one (tty only version, no bitmap). Now don't ask me how I got it. The machine was displayed at French SICOB in 1985. A member of the C900 team told me that around 200 prototypes were built (in Germany, hence the similarity with the A2000 case). Actually there is (or there was) a C900 user group in Germany. Are you still there guys (Ralph, Richard ?). I intended to use the C900 and its 4 serial ports as a multiplexer for a BBS, but found out the machine was not reliable enough. But the german folks actually wrote some stuff for the machine. Wow. Anyway, it's history now, but a niece piece for a collector ! --Francois PS: more details available on request ;-) -----Original Message----- From: Uffe Jakobsen Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:56 AM To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de Subject: Re: CBM900 to SVGA monitor 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 list Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2014-07-27 08:00:02
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