Today I was reading through some Loadstar Letters that I have. One article speaks of a company named IWIN and a C65 look a like computer they were going to create and release. the computer was called the C64x32. I'm curious to know whatever happened to that company and/or their C64x32 machine? Was it a hoax? Did they just go out of business? IF anyone has any info, please post here as I'm curious to learn about the system or what happened to it. Obviously, it was never released or I think there would be messages all over about it.

Thanks
John
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Ahhh...good old Iwin.

'Twas a horrible hoax aimed primarily at the Amiga community, but they mentioned the C64 in order to mess around with us 8-bit types, too.

Lots of empty promises, some pictures of generic cubicles that could be anyplace, pictures of mugs with their logo that could have been made for $10 at any mall...an elaborate one, but a hoax nonetheless.

Check Google Groups for all the discussions on comp.sys.amiga.misc at the time.

Actually, I like this quote from that newsgroup:

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I really don't think "hoax" is quite the right word. "Hoax" implies "joke". I think if Iwin is not for real then the proper word could be "fraud". A joke like this is just too improbably expensive. My suspicion is that Iwin is trying to bootstrap from nothing to a product via a funding scheme. "Oops, hehheh, slight delay in delivery but we are taking deposits on the systems in our brochures." Any proof? Nope. Just deep dark suspicions that evolved from a wait and see attitude I once had.

Always a possibility...