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From: [e-mail] (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Power Amiga (PPC) announced at VTU Expo
Date: 2 Nov 1995 18:00:13 -0800
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I spent the day today at the Universal City Hilton hotel for the 2nd annual
Video Toaster User expo, which continues thru 04 Nov. 95

Here's a tiny recap - I'll have more to post later along with photos after
I get the film developed and scan them.

In a half-hour speech to a packed ballroom of about 500 people, Petro
Tyschtschenko (say "ta-SHEN-ko"), a very gung-ho and good English-speaking
guy, pulled up a black cloth and revealed a brand new production Amiga 4000
Tower, and also showed, cased in lucite, no less, an actual A1200
motherboard produced by AmigaTech along with a German sales packed-A1200
full of bundled software.

Tyschtschenko is the President of Amiga Technolgies, GmbH, the wholly owned
subsidiary of Escom, AG, and it's the new 40 person (so far) company formed
to make Amiga personal computers. (Does anyone not know this yet? :) after
Escom bought out Commodore.

He then, with much suspense, announced the next generation Amigas will use
Motorola's PowerPC CPU and will be dubbed the Power Amiga.

Petro, along with his young Press Relations Guy, Gilles Bourdin, explained
that Escom has already spent many times its initial $12 million investment
in the intellectual properties of Commodore, whom they bought out earlier
this year. That They know what the Amiga is, unlike Commodore's former top
management, and that "We didn't just buy the Amiga for Christmas." He
insisted that the Amiga is back and that development will carry on through
the last of the 68xxx processors, the 68060, and then onto the PowerPC. He
did not name any ship dates for Power Amigas of course, although scuttlebut
says expect them in early '97.

Petro further said that so far, 15,000 new AT-made A1200s have been sold in
Europe. Not just shipped, sold. To customers. And that over 80,000 more are
backordered at dealers and are being made as fast as the factory can crank
them out.

Amiga Tech GmbH is forming a strategic alliance with Apple Computer, since
they have already been before where Amiga is going, from the 68k family of
CPUs to the PPC.

After Petro spoke, Tim Jenison, Pres. of Newtek took the stage and gave a
very moving, tearful speech in tribute to Jay Miner, father of the Amiga.
This was a speech unlike anything I have ever heard Jenison give before. He
was on the verge of tears many times as he recounted his early meetings in
Los Gatos with Jay and the early Amiga engineering crew, showing them the
first Digiview pictures, how Jay was constantly amazed and thrilled at the
things developers were making his little creation do.

I took pictures at the press conference and also in the exhibits hall of
various people and products and will scan and upload them in the next
couple days, putting them on Portal in the Amiga Zone library and on
Aminet, so look for them soon.

That's enough for now. I'm pooped.

Harv
[e-mail]
http://www.portal.com/~harv
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Later, Harv posted...

I also wanted to add that during his speech, Petro also mentioned that the
PowerAmiga will feature memory protection and virtual memory as OS
features. I cannot stress enough that his speech was very upbeat and
optimistic, and there many breaks for loud applause as he made certain
points.

He also gave profuse thanks to both George Robbins and Jeff Frank,
ex-of-Commodore who are now working with Amiga Tech, and he gave them much
praise for helping get the new 4000s and 1200s out on the market as soon as
they did, which required the cooperation of companies in six different
countries to accomplish. Robbins was also working at the AT/SMG booth on
the exhibits floor.

There was no printed copy of the speech available. I asked for one. Perhaps
someone else who was there will transcribe and repost the whole thing from
a recording. Shrug.

I have just uploaded to Aminet and to Portal, two JPEG images which are
composites of photos I took at the VTU expo and then scanned and tossed
together using ImageFX 2.1. Look for the files "vtu951.jpeg" and
"vtu952.jpeg" whenever they become available on Aminet or get them now on
Portal if you're a customer there.

It's hard to believe that of the 500 people in the room where Petro gave
his speech, I'm the only one who has so far come home to post about this..
but apparently so :)

Finally, I should invite you to visit the spankling newly redesigned Web
pages of AMG,Inc. the publishers of Video Toaster User magazine and
LIGHTWAVEPRO which I just installed. you'll find them at
http://www.portal.com/~amg.

The graphic you'll see at the top of the main page was created by Mike
Crossmire. If you have ever seen or used AmigaVision, it was Mike who was
the artist at Imsatt Corp., who created all of those pretty little
glyphs/icons that are used in AmigaVision's interface. A very talented guy.
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