eBay seller vrus If our 11-part series on the history of the Amiga and our (in-progress) seven-part series on the history of the Apollo program don’t give it away, we happen to be unabashed fans of a certain computing platform and a certain space program around the Ars Orbital HQ. So this week, a small […]
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A history of the Amiga, part 11: Between an Escom and a Gateway
Commodore International declared itself insolvent on April 29, 1994 under Chapter 7 of US bankruptcy law. Ordinarily, this would have been followed immediately by an auction of all the company’s assets. However, Commodore’s Byzantine organizational structure—designed to serve as a tax shelter for financier Irving Gould—made this process far more lengthy and complicated than it […]
