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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: '386 Zenith Turbosport laptops to be discontinued?
Summary: Here's one guess
Keywords: laptop zenith turbosport
Message-ID: <965@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 89 15:06:24 GMT
References: <2054@frog.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <2054@frog.UUCP>, barr@frog.UUCP (Chris Barr) writes:
|  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:

  Another mag noted that they were planning to release a newer version
of the sport when the division was sold. Too bad to see one of the few
innovative companies left in the US go down the tubes.

  Other rumor has it that they tried to sell the TV business and no one
wanted it at any price, so they sold the profitable part to get money to
spend on the unprofitable part. Bah!
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon