Re: CBM900 to SVGA monitor

>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




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