ULC@PSUVM.BITNET (10/18/88)
Hi there...
I was in recent contact with Mr.Fowles, the creator of the 881/020 boar
d that was supposed to be in the latest issue of Transactor. Well, I believe
the concensus is that the Amiga Transactor is defunct and Mr. Fowles said that
the pertinant info ( ie. his article ) would be distributed on the major nets
last weekend ( 15-16 Oct ) ie. BIX,Compuserve etc. Unfortunatly myself and
quite a few others dont have access to these nets so if some kind soul could
grab this info and post it here we would be VERY grateful.
Thanks in advance.
Jason Twamley
cesuslphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips) (10/26/88)
In <57679ULC@PSUVM>, ULC@PSUVM.BITNET writes: > I was in recent contact with Mr.Fowles, the creator of the 881/020 board > that was supposed to be in the latest issue of Transactor. Well, I believe > the concensus is that the Amiga Transactor is defunct and Mr. Fowles said that > the pertinant info ( ie. his article ) would be distributed on the major nets > last weekend ( 15-16 Oct ) ie. BIX,Compuserve etc. Unfortunatly myself and > quite a few others dont have access to these nets so if some kind soul could > grab this info and post it here we would be VERY grateful. Well, as sometimes happens, the news of the demise of the Transactor is somewhat premature. I have been in fairly constant contact with them, and can now post the following, taken from a message left on the AmigaVendor forum on Compuserve, where Transactor has a section. ------------ start of reposted message ----------- #: 2482 S8/Transactor 23-Oct-88 21:24:43 Sb: #2444-#8 Fm: Malcolm O'Brien 76703,4243 To: Jeff Dege 76426,211 (X) Hi Jeff: Just what's going on: It's true that there is a message on the phone that we are looking for a buyer. Fact is, we've found several BUT we wanted to be sure that the buyer would: Assume the liabilities of Transactor Publishing Inc. Honour our commitments to the subscriber base and the people who have ordered other products from us, i.e. back issues, 8-bit hardware and 8-bit software. Allow us to continue to produce magazines with top quality editorial content We probably could have sold the whole ball of wax in a minute if we'd been willing to back off of any of those. From where I sit, those are the most important concerns to me; i.e. what we are (and have been for 10 years) to our readers. The other people here would second that, I'm sure. I wouldn't be here Sunday midnight if I wasn't serious about this. On Friday we received a call from one of our prospective buyers. They have consented to the points noted above and they have stated that they WILL buy. Sometime next week we expect them to come to the Transactor offices for the signing of papers and wrap up. At that time, I expect, we will hand them the film for Issue 3 and they will take it to press and it will finally appear on the North American market. We are presently finishing up Issue 4 for the U.K. and Australian divisions. I have Volume 9, Issue 2 of Transactor (Classic - the 8-bit mag) mostly done. The young-sounding voice on the answering machine is that of Richard Evers, our publisher. It's time we made a new tape... Rumours began to spread about us when Karl Hildon left the company. A lot of people (including me) thought that Transactor and Karl were the same and began to speculate negatively about Transactor's future. Those rumours served to reduce revenue which caused some problems but the real crusher came from the company that did our printing. THAT was the pivotal event in the sequence leading up to the sale of the company. The good part is that T will continue, mags will get printed and the subscribers (and newsstand readers) will get their magazines. The other good part is that we all get to keep our jobs and keep on doing what we love to do: producing the best magazines for programmers (and users) of Commodore computers. Transactor is "too good to give up", as Ricardo would say. So that's what's happening, Jeff. Please capture these messages and post them on PLINK and anywhere else you can. We're NOT dead but for awhile there we were ailing. When the deed is done, it'll be here on CIS first. I'll be on line before the ink dries <grin>. Malcolm O'Brien, Asst. Editor Transactor Transactor for the Amiga --------------- end of reposted message --------------- -- If all the MSDos machines were laid end to end, they still wouldn't be as fun as a single Amiga. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ {ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision,uunet}!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
kjohn@richsun.UUCP (John Kjellman) (10/27/88)
In article <57679ULC@PSUVM> ULC@PSUVM.BITNET writes: >Hi there... > I was in recent contact with Mr.Fowles, the creator of the 881/020 boar >d that was supposed to be in the latest issue of Transactor. Well, I believe >the concensus is that the Amiga Transactor is defunct and Mr. Fowles said that >the pertinant info ( ie. his article ) would be distributed on the major nets >last weekend ( 15-16 Oct ) ie. BIX,Compuserve etc. Unfortunatly myself and >quite a few others dont have access to these nets so if some kind soul could >grab this info and post it here we would be VERY grateful. > YES YES YES, please post this sucker already, I dunno how much longer I can hold out :-) :-) :-) Seriously, if someone can point me to where I might find this: Compuserve group, PeopleLink,..... let me know and I'll get it AND post it to the all might mega USENET (don't mind me, I'm on my fifth cup of coffe this afternoon :-). KJohn -- | Amiga /// | Disclaimer: This is only a dream, it's only a dream ......... | | Manic///.5K | One liners: I'm from the government, I'm here to help........ | | \\\/// 1K | MS/D*S is the best damn OS I have ever used...... | | \XX/ 2K | kjohn@richp1 or [ purdue | cs.ubc | mcdchg ] ! richp1 ! kjohn |