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Started by Barry Shein
Sun, 12 Oct 1986 03:42
CT marketing of UNIX PC?
Author: Barry Shein
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1986 03:42
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1986 03:42
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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
Re: CT marketing of UNIX PC?
Author: 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
Re: CT marketing of UNIX PC?
Author: bsteve
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1986 12:42
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1986 12:42
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I seriously doubt that CT will be marketing the UNIX PC products themselves, though they might offer something VERY similar in the form of another miniframe derivative. (*personal flame starts here*) I agree totally with bzs, the UNIX PC is a nice little box. It is very easy for some folks at a very big company to say "well pooh, we only sold 10 thousand this year...", when some other pretty big companies would be estatic at that number and would get major headlines in conspiracy newspapers. (*personal flame ends here*) AT&T is not by any means dropping support on the UNIX PC. In fact they have just announced a number of new options for it, including an external expansion backplane, and have just released SVR3, a voice compression and storage board for phone messaging/voice mail, and ethernet TCP/IP for it. This is not a bunch of hype, I really like these. Steve Blasingame (Oklahoma City) ihnp4!occrsh!gorgo!bsteve bsteve@eris.Berkeley.Edu
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