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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. 
>Does anyone have anymore info on their plans such as name of the 
>machine, enhancements, new peripherals, new software, etc? And will all
>of this be compatible with the 7300 box as it comes from AT&T ?
>
>Phil Karn, Sr

I want to know too!  Also, I've heard that CT has (or might) go under.
Is this a rumor?  If not, will there be any way to get the nicer UNIX PC
from CT (e.g. will another firm pick them up?)

{ dual, ptsfa }!cogent!mark

In article <341@petrus.UUCP>, karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) writes:
> 
>         Convergent Technologies announced that they are going to market
> the UNIX(TM)PC 7300 themselves in addition to selling it to AT&T. 
> Does anyone have anymore info on their plans such as name of the 
> machine, enhancements, new peripherals, new software, etc? And will all
> of this be compatible with the 7300 box as it comes from AT&T ?

I have been waiting for the last week to get prices on this little beasty!
The information I have (unconfirmed by anyone other than my distributor)
is that it is an honest to god 7300, with a CT sticker, 7300 software,
etc., etc. Until now, Computerland has had the exclusive rights on the
7300 in Canada. I don't think their sales staff are aware that independant
vendors and VAR's will be able to market the machine - boy are they in for
a surprise!!!

Now all I need to do is figure out who would want to own one...
-- 

Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM) 	  {ihnp4,ubc-vision,watmath}!alberta!ncc!lyndon
Systems Group - A Div. of Nexus Computing Corp.  		Envoy_100: Unix

If CT can undersell AT&T, the 7300/3B1 would be a very hot machine.
Currently, it's grossly over-priced, especially for the 3B1 model.
(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?)
-- 
Steve Dyer
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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 :-)
-- 
Jim Webb             "Out of phase--get help"          ...!ihnp4!hropus!jrw

In article <7@cogent.UUCP>, mark@cogent.UUCP (Mark Steven Jeghers) writes:
>>        Convergent Technologies announced that they are going to market
>>the UNIX(TM)PC 7300 themselves in addition to selling it to AT&T. 
>>Does anyone have anymore info ...
>>Phil Karn, Sr
>I want to know too!  Also, I've heard that CT has (or might) go under.

eh?

>Is this a rumor? 

I would certainly hope so!

>{ dual, ptsfa }!cogent!mark

Where on earth (or elsewhere) did you hear this?
CT is still in business as of 11:30AM MDT this morning.
Being one of the largest manufacturers of Unix systems (don't forget all
those Burroughs B20's either) with some very large OEM contracts, I can't
see Convergent just "going under".
C'mon Mark - give us some facts here! Just what did you hear, when, and where?
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Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM) 	  {ihnp4,ubc-vision,watmath}!alberta!ncc!lyndon
Systems Group - A Div. of Nexus Computing Corp.  		Envoy_100: Unix

In article <734@hropus.UUCP> jrw@hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb) writes:
>> (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 :-)

Yes, and then there would be the $10,000 challenge to DEC to prove that the
Vax was faster.

Of course it could be worse, it could come bundled with that Silver Reed
printer. :-)

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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 ...