From dale@iam.iam.com Wed Apr 19 05:41:01 1995 Received: from marksys.misty.com by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA22218; Wed, 19 Apr 95 05:38:55 PDT Received: (from uucp@localhost) by marksys.misty.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id IAA15886; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 08:38:06 -0400 Received: (from dale@localhost) by iam.iam.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id HAA08040; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 07:38:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 07:38:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dale L. Larson" To: Harv Laser , Jason Compton , jdow , "jim.meyer" , zerkle@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu, witbrock@cs.cmu.edu, cucug@prairienet.org Cc: dave@iam.com Subject: One Year Anniversary Special, Expires May 1 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE One Year Anniversary Special Sale, Expires May 1 APRIL 19, 1995 (DREXEL HILL, PA) To celebrate a year without Commodore and whatever happens with the remains tommorrow and Friday, IAM announces a very special sale with deep discounts on the two-hour documentary from behind the scenes at Commodore -- "The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst." This sale expires MAY 1, 1995, and only applies to the NTSC versions of the tapes. Another special, available only through orders placed on IAM's World Wide Web site (http://www.iam.com) can be combined with this sale to result in even larger savings. Until May 1, 1995 only, on direct end-user orders from IAM only, the price of the limited edition video (100 total, each hand-signed by many engineers, many have been sold already) is reduced from $50 to $45 (while supplies last). The price of the standard edition video is reduced from $35 to $25. (A $6 shipping and handling fee will be added to all orders. Due to anticipated high demand, please allow up to two weeks for shipping.) REVIEWER'S COMMENTS "If you want to see What Went Wrong, see this movie. If you want to see the people that made the Amiga keep working all these years, see this movie. If you want to understand just what Commodore management was like, see this movie. If you just want to hear a bunch of really, really funny stories... see this movie." -Jason Compton, Editor in Chief, Amiga Report (AR230) "I've always thought that the Amiga is somehow a subversive computer, and now I know why... The Deathbed Vigil documents a sometimes humorous, sometimes malicious struggle for individual and collective sanity among extremely talented people whose every creative idea was somehow misdirected or squelched by a crew of clueless managers and corporate philistines. These are our heros, who created not just a computer, but a passion, a whole outlook on life. It is a "must see" for die-hard Amiga fans everywhere. The people who made the Amiga computer a major passion in our lives are the stars of the show, and the stories they tell authentically document what it was like to work at Commodore during its heyday as well as at the end. They loved the Amiga even more than us -- after all, they designed it from its chips outward.... It is basically a two hour home movie. The medium, however, is well suited to the message. It's a thoroughly honest film, painfully so at times." -Merrill Callaway, Amazing Computing Magazine, February 1995 DESCRIPTION This 120 minute VHS video tape is a documentary filmed, narrated and produced by Dave Haynie, former Senior Hardware Engineer at Commodore Amiga, Inc. (now Senior Systems Engineer at Scala, Inc.). The video includes interviews with dozens of famous Amiga personalities, and offers opinions and explanations of many "behind-the-scenes" goings on in the history of the Amiga and the downfall of Commodore. It was produced and edited with the Amiga. It shows the famous "Deathbed Vigil Party," the last Margarita's layoff party, the West Chester facilities of Commodore (including the secret engineering lab), and more. WARNING Contains profanity and scenes of graphic violence. NR (Not Rated). LIMITED EDITION Only 100 LIMITED EDITION packages were made, and each is unique. They all include a hard clamshell case with an insert hand-numbered and signed by Dave Haynie. About a dozen other engineers have hand signed the inserts. The inserts also have a rare 3-d metallic "Boing" logo sticker which was produced for the original A1000. As well, the limited edition packages include a lyric sheet for the film's original soundtrack, plus one or more collector's edition obsolete Commodore engineer business cards. Finally, the labels on the limited edition videos are gold foil. COMPANY INFORMATION Intangible Assets Manufacturing IAM also publishes Amiga Envoy 2.0, DiskSalv 3, and "Connect Your Amiga! A Guide to the Internet, LANs, BBSs and Online Services." The Deathbed Vigil T-Shirt is from OIC (info@oic.com). IAM accepts mail orders with checks or money orders and Visa/MC (include number and exp. date in mail, email, fax or phone). Web Page (with catalog and ordering) http://www.iam.com AmigaGuide Catalog: ftp://ftp.iam.com/biz/iam/iam.lha Email info robot: info@iam.com Orders: sales@iam.com Intangible Assets Manufacturing 828 Ormond Avenue Drexel Hill, PA 19026-2604 USA +1 610 853 4406 (orders only) fax: +1 610 853 3733