As the Apple Turns: Scene 586: GV Sheds Its Modems (3/31/98)

GV Sheds Its Modems (3/31/98)

So much for rumors about Apple buying Global Village-- turns out Boca bought them instead. For a measly $10 mil, Boca gets all of Global Village's modem business, including the brand name and logo. Details are in a Reuters story.

After the transfer of its modem business to Boca, the Company Formerly Known As Global Village will re-emerge with a new name and a new stock ticker symbol, at which point they'll leap feet first into marketing their new product: a communications server designed for small businesses which provides fax, internet, and remote access services. (Sounds like the OneWorld to us...)

AtAT numbers two Global Village modems among its pool of equipment, and they've always performed well. We hope that Boca continues the tradition of providing excellent Mac software like GlobalFax, and that they don't just turn Global Village into a Wintel-only business. Given that the price tag was only $10 million, we're both surprised and a little dismayed that Apple didn't buy the modem business to ensure a tight integration of the communications services in its own computers. Sounds like it could have been a nice set-up.

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The above scene was taken from the 3/31/98 episode:

March 31, 1998: Artemis has arrived, and not a minute too soon-- the flashy toothlike beast aims to do some damage in the educational market. Meanwhile, the mad geeks chained to their desks in Apple's labs continue to try to squeeze the Artemis down to a $1000 level, and Boca beats Apple to the Global Village checkout counter...

Other scenes from that episode:

584: Artemis Has Landed (3/31/98) Apple officially announced the Power Macintosh All-In-One today (the Mac Formerly Known As Artemis), sooner than we had expected, but later than we had originally hoped. The good news is, pretty much all of the rumors about its specs have proven true: it's got a 233 or 266 MHz G3 chip (a full 750 with 512 KB backside cache, not the cacheless 740 model); it's got an integrated 15-inch monitor capable of displaying 1024x768 resolution; and it'll ship standard with 32 MB of RAM, a 24x CD-ROM drive, and a 4 GB (not 2 GB) hard drive...
585: Already Waiting for AIO 2 (3/31/98) Or, there's also the possibility posted by Mac OS Rumors that the AIO will include a sub-$1000 configuration after all. Recall, if you will, that Apple's currently working on the educational version of its online build-to-order Apple Store...

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