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From: commodorejohn on 6 Mar 2010 23:26
Hah, a few hours in and already almost $300. Oh well.

Just out of curiosity, who currently holds the rights to the SuperCPU
technology? IIRC, Maurice Randall only has a license to distribute CMD
products, right? Is someone else in possession of the patent rights,
or did they lapse at some point along the way? It sure would be nice
if there could be an occasional run of new units for those of us who
want one but not enough to shell out the big bucks for it...
From: Jim Brain on 7 Mar 2010 00:14
On 3/6/2010 10:26 PM, commodorejohn wrote:
> Hah, a few hours in and already almost $300. Oh well.
>
> Just out of curiosity, who currently holds the rights to the SuperCPU
> technology? IIRC, Maurice Randall only has a license to distribute CMD
> products, right? Is someone else in possession of the patent rights,
> or did they lapse at some point along the way? It sure would be nice
> if there could be an occasional run of new units for those of us who
> want one but not enough to shell out the big bucks for it...

Mark Fellows owns the rights.

Jim
From: RobertB on 8 Mar 2010 01:39
On Mar 7, 5:45 am, redrumloa <amiga...(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:

> The serial number on your SuperCPU 128 is CPU1281065. Would
> that be #65 off the assembly line or #1,065 off the assembly line? I
> have always wondered how many of these things ever sold and AFAIK
> numbers were never released.

According to Doug Cotton on an old Genie roundtable
discussion (or was it in Commodore World magazine),
over a 1,000 SuperCPU 64's were manufactured. I've
always thought that 500+ SuperCPU 128s were built.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org

From: Michael on 8 Mar 2010 08:03
On Mar 8, 1:39 am, RobertB <rberna...(a)iglou.com> wrote:
> On Mar 7, 5:45 am, redrumloa <amiga...(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > The serial number on your SuperCPU 128 is CPU1281065. Would
> > that be #65 off the assembly line or #1,065 off the assembly line? I
> > have always wondered how many of these things ever sold and AFAIK
> > numbers were never released.
>
> According to Doug Cotton on an old Genie roundtable
> discussion (or was it in Commodore World magazine),
> over a 1,000 SuperCPU 64's were manufactured.  I've
> always thought that 500+ SuperCPU 128s were built.
>
> Truly,
> Robert Bernardo
> Fresno Commodore User Grouphttp://videocam.net.au/fcug
> The Other Group of Amigoidshttp://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
> Southern California Commodore & Amiga Networkhttp://www.sccaners.org

If that is the case. That makes them pretty darn rare.
From: Leif Bloomquist on 8 Mar 2010 09:44

>On Mar 8, 1:39 am, RobertB <rberna...(a)iglou.com> wrote:

>> According to Doug Cotton on an old Genie roundtable
>> discussion (or was it in Commodore World magazine),
>> over a 1,000 SuperCPU 64's were manufactured. I've
>> always thought that 500+ SuperCPU 128s were built.

"Michael" <mistermsk(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:584353e5-b687-4bb9-bcb9-d6346519cb37(a)o3g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...

> If that is the case. That makes them pretty darn rare.

I disagree, that number (1500 total?) is probably on the same order of
magnitude as the number of serious Commodore users left. So there would in
theory be somewhere around one per user, which as we've seen certainly isn't
the case.

My wild guess is that there are closer to 100 (yes, one hundred) SuperCPUs
out there. So where are the other 1400 or so?

-Leif


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