profi death
ZXNet echo conference «real.speccy»
From Vassili Klimov → To All 4 August 2003
maybe someone will be interested in the log of the fidish echo on the topic of the pros and how it all
ended
AG> Not cute - but just cool... The authors received 80% of software sales. But
AG> the company
AG> "Condor" did not conduct any advertising and, thanks to this, stopped producing
AG> Pros..
That's not why. When developing the next version of the pros, they decided, given the then-shortage of AYs, to make their own special chip at the factory, which included a music player and VG93. They pumped several thousand dollars into the development of the chip, and then the plant said it wasn’t enough, and they gave more. But the chip came out with an incredible delay, and turned out to be damp and with glitches in the circuit. They ordered several trial pieces, tried for a long time to debug the new version of Pro, and the boards were already released in some quantity. The same famous Kiril Gromov struggled for a long time over the launch of this scheme, too, but the chip turned out to be so bad that Condor, having spent all his savings in vain, simply could not, and
probably did not want to continue producing the Pro. :-( So, because of the existing government, which we ourselves elected, and because of the mess in the laws and lack of responsibility, because of the fall of the economy, etc., and not because of the lack of advertising, the best producer in Moscow of the best
Moscow version of the Spectrum closed down. :-( AlthoughThe Condor company continues to exist with almost the same composition to this day, but now they only deal with Amigami.
With respect, Alex from FFC COMPUTERS.
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