Celerity east coast offices closed?!

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3 total messages Started by George Avrunin Mon, 01 Feb 1988 21:18

#28

Author: George Avrunin
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1988 21:18

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I just called the Boston office and got some kind of switchboard or
answering service.  I left a message for Roger Klorese.  A little while
later I got a call from someone in San Diego who said that Roger was no
longer with the company, as of Friday (!), indicated that nobody was in the
Boston office any more, and offerred to find out the information I wanted.  

Paul Lahti, from the Chemistry department here, then called the New Jersey
office.  He got a person who said she didn't know what was going on but had
been instructed to refer all calls to San Diego.  Paul then called San Diego
and was told that all the east coast offices had been closed, that all
support and service would now be handled out of San Diego, and that we will
be getting a letter (at some unspecified time in the future) explaining all
this.  

Does anybody have any idea what's going on?  Dan Mell was out here from the
Boston office last week to install some stuff for us and to install the 1260
that Chemistry just bought, and didn't indicate that he knew about anything
like this coming, and certainly nobody said anything about it while
Chemistry was ordering their new machine.  The idea of service from
San Diego makes us a more than a bit nervous, and the people in Chemistry
are really unhappy.

Does anybody know how shaky Celerity's financial situation really is?  Or
how they really expect to run service from San Diego?

George Avrunin				avrunin@cs.umass.edu
Department of Mathematics		avrunin@umass.bitnet
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA  01003

Celerity east coast offices closed?!

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Author: Luis Francisco Ortiz
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1988 15:48

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   Date: Mon, 1 Feb 88 17:18 EDT
   From: George Avrunin <AVRUNIN%cs.umass.edu@bu-it.BU.EDU>
   X-Vms-To: IN%"info-celerity@dolphin.bu.edu"

   I just called the Boston office and got some kind of switchboard  ...

   Does anybody have any idea what's going on? ...

   Does anybody know how shaky Celerity's financial situation really is?  Or
   how they really expect to run service from San Diego?

	George Avrunin

After I just convinced a friend at the MIT speech lab to consider
using a Celerity for a file server, he too got shunted off to
California when he callled on Monday morning.

From what I understand, (from unnamed sources) they slipped up again
in production for their new 60000 series machines and they are now in
such shacky ground financially, that they were forced to close up the
east coast operations.

I just finished leaving messages at the homes of freinds of mine in
the company, so if I hear anything, I'll be shure to update readers of
this list.

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Re: Celerity east coast offices closed?!

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Author: John F. Wardale
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1988 22:28

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In article <8802031548.AA08242@SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> ortiz-luis%YALE.ARPA@BU-IT.BU.EDU (Luis Francisco Ortiz) writes:

>   I just called the Boston office and got some kind of switchboard  ...
>From what I understand, (from unnamed sources) they slipped up again
>in production for their new 60000 series machines and they are now in
>such shacky ground financially, that they were forced to close up the
>east coast operations.

From a very small article in EE-times (or was in Info-Rumor??)

C E L E R I T Y   D R O P S   6 4-B I T   P L A N S,  I D L E S   7 0

laid off 70 percent of its 100 person workforce.

"[Celerity] now plans to cease all non-engineering functions anc
concentrate on completein ongoing development of its 2nd gen. product,
in order to sell the remaining operations"

"reduction is sue to a shortage of a specific semiconductor.  The part 
constraint would prevent if rom shipping any Series 6000 [machines] 
1st half."

"The fate of the [C1230 C1260 machines] with an installed base of
approx. 200 systems could not be ascertained by press time."

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Anyone *KNOW* what the missing "part" is?  (I [and others??] have my
[our] idea, but it's speculative!)

DISCLAIMER:  This never happend...I don't exist, and if I did 
		I'd speak only for me...blah...blah...blah

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					John Wardale
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To err is human, to really foul up world news requires the net!

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