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Article #1256Re: CT marketing of UNIX PC?
From: Jim Webb
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1986 19:35
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1986 19:35
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> > > Convergent Technologies announced that they are going to market > >the UNIX(TM)PC 7300 themselves in addition to selling it to AT&T. > > Having spent a few net bytes griping about ATTIS' "orphaned response" > to their 7300 all I can say is, if true, good for them! > > I still think the PC7300 is one of the best home computers I've seen > (now howsabout a 68020 upgrade so we can really crow?) It's still, as > is, years ahead of similarly priced machines. > > Sex, Drugs and Unix... > > -Barry Shein, Boston University YES! Convergent is marketing the PC as an S/50. They have a 2 page ad in the Oct. 86 Mini-Micro Systems magazine. It looks just like it does now with the exception that no deathstar adorns the bottom of the monitor. (Hmm, I wonder what the "working" icon looks like :-) Interesting, though, is that the ad states the machine can have a max of only 2 meg, I know you can put 4 meg in the PC, 2 on the motherboard and 2 on an expansion card, so maybe the ad men haven't been talking with the techies. At least the ad doesn't claim the power of a vax... -- Jim Webb "Out of phase--get help" ...!ihnp4!hropus!jrw
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!caip!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jrw From: jrw@hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb) Newsgroups: net.micro.att Subject: Re: CT marketing of UNIX PC? Message-ID: <731@hropus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 15:35:54 EDT Article-I.D.: hropus.731 Posted: Wed Oct 15 15:35:54 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Oct-86 05:54:50 EDT References: <1826@bu-cs.bu-cs.BU.EDU> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 25