Commodore bankrupt ... again!

[Mark Smith]

Oh dear ....

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/commodore_lawsuits/

[Blacklord]

Interesting the corporate page at http://www.commodorecorp.com/ is blank.

[airship]

No it's not. Blank, that is.

[Blacklord]

No it's not. Blank, that is.

It's back now. Here's the relevant article clarifying the situation :

April 21 2008, Baarn, Commodore International Corp.

(CIC) (OTC:CDRL) was informed by the court in 's-Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands) that one of its subsidiaries, Commodore International BV, was declared bankrupt. In the meantime it has been established by both CIC and the petitioning party that procedural mistakes resulting in this judicial declaration were made erroneously beyond CIC's control. The petitioner and CIC had already concluded a written agreement for the cancellation of the bankruptcy proceedings and mutually confirmed. CIC, in cooperation with the petitioner and all parties involved, is in the process of submitting an objection to this declaration. It is expected that this will be resolved in the course of next week. CIC will further inform once this result is known.

For the avoidance of doubt we would like to stress that this bankruptcy declaration of the named subsidiary does not involve CIC's operational entities either in the Netherlands or elsewhere.

[airship]

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[Golan Klinger]

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/commodore_lawsuits/

Strike 2!

[Andrew Wiskow]

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/commodore_lawsuits/

Strike 2!

Interesting...

I was reading through the comments posted to that, and I came across this one:

I had a Commode64 back in the day. I distinctly remember how the power pack (brick) could be plugged-in the wrong way - and the user wouldn't know it until it was turned on and fried itself.

Anyone here know how the C64 brick could be plugged in the wrong way?  I sure don't...   

-Andrew

[airship]

Couldn't you plug some of the early power cords into the serial port?

[hydrophilic]

Never seen it happen with a 64, but my VIC-20 was fried because of the power-plug design.  The power port on the VIC-20 is the same (2-prong) shape used by standard kitchen/bathroom appliances.  Well, one day my sister tried to use one of those cords to power the VIC.  Needless to say, the VIC didn't like 120V input and promptly died.