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Merlancia Industries wrote: Merlancia Announces strategic alliance with 'individual Computers' for the design of 'CLeo' circuitry...
Merlancia Press Release #MMC29062K1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

29th June 2001

Merlancia Industries
3516A West Cactus Road
Phoenix, AZ 85029 USA

1-877-53-AMIGA | ++1 602-789-0956
http://www.merlancia.com | merlancia@merlancia.com
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individual Computers -Jens Schönfeld
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'Merlancia Industries' Announces Startegic Alliance with 'indiuvidual Computers'


Merlancia Industries is pleased to announce a strategic relationship with 'individual Computers'; to design a controller device that will be utilised on our Torro series systems.

The device, a custom chip controller, named 'CLeo' will be available as an add-on kit for the Pilot release systems (to be included with all systems shipping after it's release, and to be sent to all developer systems sold before-hand).

The 'CLeo" custom device is based on technology first implemented in individual Computers' 'CatWeasel' disc controller, and will allow the reading and writing of Amiga native disc formats (880k and 1760k) on our Tsunami system as well as future directives. Other formats will be supported as well including PC-DOS, and Macintosh-HFS.

We expect to have a prototype of this design at AmiWest Conference (28th to 29th July 2001- Sacramento, CA; USA) as well as our prototype Pilot system.

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Comment 2Don Cox28-Jun-2001 22:00 GMT
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Posted by Ralph on 28-Jun-2001 22:00 GMT
Ehhhmm - what is all the fuss about? It is nice - granted. Maybe it is faster than
the original Chinon-HD Floppy used in the A4000 - granted.
But what the heck - who is using Floppy discs anyway these days (except for emergency
boot discs). Most things run on Zip, LS-120, CD-R and Network these days. I do not want
to be one of those guys yelling "What for?" - but in this case i really wonder! If such
a chip could do a kind of Super-I/O and not only FD, it may be worth a word. But until
those mysterious "future directives" and "other formats" are not mentioned more precisely
i am asking myself how desolate the situation in the Amiga market must be if such a tiny
thing is worth a big press announcement ...
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