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From: jmh@coyote.uucp (John Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Why read THIS group (was Re: Tandy for sale - Price Reduction)
Message-ID: <1990Dec25.024103.20405@coyote.uucp>
Date: 25 Dec 90 02:41:03 GMT
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Reply-To: jmh@coyote.UUCP (John Hughes)
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In article <1990Dec23.225025.26467@hellgate.utah.edu> smcgee%albion.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Mcgee) writes:
>In article <2547@svnet.UUCP> harry@svnet.UUCP (Harry Skelton) writes:
>>
>>GADS! AN IBM! CLONE!?! "Quick Marge, take the kids and head for the hills!" 8-)
>>Bob: I just read this group for T100/200/102/WP2 info... (been looking for one
>>for a while but most are as expensive as the new on-the-shelf models.)
>
>Actually, there are a lot of others like you (well, sort of) here. A lot of
>us watch this group for info on the Color Computer. Many of us feel the same
>way about MSDOS. Now that Tandy has officially orphanned the Color Computer I
>suppose we are bound to slowly dwindle away leaving this group to the clones
>and laptops but that's life. 
>
>FOOTNOTE: Until they decided to cancel the Color Computer, it was the oldest
>computer manufactured. 
>
>Scott
>
>   Writing programs in assembler is like digging post holes with a teaspoon:
>   it takes a long time, but you have complete control over all the dirt.
>   ------------------------------------------#------------------------------
>   smcgee%albion@cs.utah.edu (Scott McGee)   #   Did _I_ say _That_? Really?


kindly don't forget Tandy's Biggest Commerical Computer Screw-Up, the
discontinuance of the 16/6000 family of Xenix machines. Over 15000 sold
(probably a good deal more than that), one of the first, if not the first
port of Unix Version 7 to Xenix, an expandable architecture, and....
they dropped the product line.

It would seem that Tandy's bean-counters-cum-executives have been hard-bitten
by the clone bug. Too bad.


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