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Re: CT marketing of UNIX PC?

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From: Munach Rvi'i
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1986 15:40
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> > (I'm just waiting for AT&T to bail out on it and then start seeing
> > the overstock sold by DAK: can anyone guess the headline on the ad?)
> 
> I don't know about the headline, but I am sure you have to buy at least
> 2 dozen cassettes :-)
>
Don't know about the headline, either.  However, Drew Kaplan might tell about
how the marketing people at CT thought that the 7300 would be so popular and
successful that AT&T would stop all their own internal work on computers and
buy everything oem from CT.  He might also tell about CT's major diversion of
resource from every other project such that all the eggs would be put into this
basket and how CT's marketing and executive staff pissed off the other major
oems (Burroughs et al) in the process ...
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