Commodore - Back In The Hardware Biz At Last?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @02:36PM from the nobody-beats-the dept.

Aphrika writes "Commodore is back in the hardware business [via current owners Tulip Computers] and this time they're taking on... Apple? Due for release in August are three MP3 players; the eVic, fPet and mPet. The eVic is a 20GB (hence the name) hard drive-based player, while the mPet and fPet are closer to the Muvo/iRiver styled flash players. They'll also be hoping you pay a visit to the Commodore World Music Store once in a while to stock up on tunes..." We also recently mentioned Commodore's 'TV Game' and ROM-store projects over at Slashdot Games.

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Your Sig by pommiekiwifruit · 2004-06-30 23:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Richard Pearse (Otage, NZ) flew before the Wright Bros with a powered heavier than air plane (heck Lilienthal was earlier with a hang-glider). Their achievement was in claiming a controlled flight, since Pearse crashed into a hedge. Of course, they were flying on a beach (Kitty Hawk IIRC) with a convenient lack of hedges :-) Pearse's plane looks surprisingly modern (like an ultralight) but perhaps was ahead of the material technology of the time.
Of course, like Microsoft, they were much better at commercialising the technology than their rivals.