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From: barr@frog.UUCP (Chris Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: '386 Zenith Turbosport laptops to be discontinued?
Summary: - related to Bull buyout?
Keywords: laptop zenith turbosport
Message-ID: <2054@frog.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 89 00:57:00 GMT
Expires: 17 Oct 89 04:00
Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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PC Week has a 'briefly noted' item this week:

  ..Zenith Data Systems is halting production of its TurbosPort 386 
  laptop, according to a firm that purchased 5,000 units from Zenith..

Why?  Here's 2 guesses:

 a) It's only temporary...
 b) They also just sold the Data Systems (computer) division to a
    French company, Groupe Bull because Zenith (the whole company) is
    not profitable, and maybe the Turbosport isn't, either.
 c) NEC's and others' 386 laptops are better.  Zenith was offering
    $500 rebates on the T-sport.