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   Date: 10 Nov 92 01:18:22 GMT
   From: usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!beach.csulb.edu!nic.csu.net!ethernet.sonoma.edu!bwilson@@agate  (Brian Wilson)
   Organization: Sonoma State University
   Sender: info-ti-explorer-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu

   My school has recently obtained a donation of 4 TI Explorers,
   without any documentation. Can someone give me the
   contact (address or phone number) within TI for
   obtaining doc's?  Thanks.

   Brian Wilson      
   reply to: bwilson@zippy.sonoma.edu
   Computer and Information Science Dept
   Sonoma State University

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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92  16:31:53 CST
From: N Nagase <nagase@foxtrot.dsg.ti.com>
To: info-ti-explorer@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Subject: TI spare parts

The following is a part of a business article from Austin's daily
newsparer, Austin-American-Statesman, Oct.  26, 1992, titled ...
'slick deal'.

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When Texas Instruments decided to sell its Austin-based Unix
computer business, the company had a warehouse full of inventory in
Houston it wanted to unload.

Enter United Computer Group of San Diego, Calif., which bought TI's
inventory for a fraction of the $3 million tag TI had placed on it.

So now, Eli Schwartz, United'd president, says his company is the
nation's leading provider of spare and refurbished parts for three
models of TI computers: the old 990 mini-computers, the AT(?) 1500
Unix computers and the Explorer, which TI developed in the mid-1980s
to capitalize on a boom in artificial intelligence applications that
never materialized.

Schwarts says he'll sell the inventory to TI's established market of
more than 30,000 businesses in this country and thousands more in
Europe.

"For us, it was a very slick deal," Schwarts said.  "It's successful
already.  I have enough orders to pay for what I paid" for the
inventory.