Amiga, Inc. (South Dakota)

Amiga, Inc. of South Dakota was a personal computer company, originally a wholly owned subsidiary of Gateway 2000, Inc., predating the Amiga, Inc. of Washington. It was based upon the intellectual property of the German company Escom AG, and had descended from the original Commodore Amiga personal computer series from the 1980s and 1990s.

This article is about the defunct subsidiary of Gateway. For the current company of this name, see Amiga, Inc. For other companies associated with the computer line, see Amiga (disambiguation).
Amiga, Inc.
Founded1997 (1997)
Defunct1999 (1999)
Headquarters600 N. Derby Lane, North Sioux City, South Dakota
Key people
Jeff Schindler, Jim Collas, Tom Schmidt, Darreck Lisle, Marilyn Flint, Allan Havemose, Joe Torre, Kelli Newby, née Macomber
ProductsA1200, Power A5000, AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 5
Number of employees
5
ParentGateway 2000, Inc.

History

This instance of Amiga, Inc. was incorporated in South Dakota in 1997,[1] as a wholly owned subsidiary of Gateway 2000, Inc. (later renamed Gateway, Inc.) After acquiring from the German company Escom AG certain Amiga-related intellectual property assets in 1997, Gateway decided to keep the patents, and try to run Amiga, Inc. as a separate unit. It was originally intended to develop two new operating systems, announced as "AmigaOS 4" and "AmigaOS 5".[2] Amiga, Inc. was initially led by Jeff Schindler, then by Jim Collas,[3] and later by Tom Schmidt.[4] Other employees included Darreck Lisle (event coordinator), Marylin Flint (operations manager), Joe Torre (senior engineer) and Kelli Newby, née Macomber, (executive administrative assistant). Independent subcontractors who also briefly worked (without being hired) for Amiga, Inc. included William "Bill" McEwen and Barrie Jon "Fleecy" Moss.

In 1999, when Gateway closed Amiga, Inc., Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss obtained from Gateway[5] the amiga.com Internet domain and a license to incorporate a new independent company, also named "Amiga, Inc.", but incorporated in the state of Washington.

Further information on the subsequent Amiga, Inc. of Washington and on other companies named "Amiga, Inc.": Amiga (disambiguation)

See also

References
  1. "Petro Tyschtschenko's Speech at the 1997 Midwest Amiga Exposition". Champaign-Urbana Computer Users Group. November 1, 1997. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
  2. "Plans for new Amiga emerge". CNET News.com. May 17, 1998. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
  3. "Amiga President Jim Collas Addresses Amiga99 Attendees". Champaign-Urbana Computer Users Group. March 12, 1999. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
  4. "Collas out as Amiga president". ZDNet News. September 1, 1999. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
  5. "Gateway sells Amiga to startup". ZDNet News. January 3, 2000. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
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