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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Why read THIS group (was Re: Tandy for sale - Price Reduction)
Message-ID: <1990Dec25.154213.2472@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 25 Dec 90 15:42:13 GMT
References: <1170@sjfc.UUCP> <6521@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <2547@svnet.UUCP> <1990Dec23.225025.26467@hellgate.utah.edu> <1990Dec25.024103.20405@coyote.uucp>
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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In article <1990Dec25.024103.20405@coyote.uucp> jmh@coyote.UUCP (John Hughes) writes:
>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.


Even today, it leaves bittersweet tinges. I just loaded a litle cart with my
Model 16 and a couple of hard drives, preparatory to moving them out of the
apartment. I can't quite bring myself to move the cart out of the front hall
and over the threshold. Old reliable kinda stares at me, begging to revved on
one more time...

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 Jean-Pierre Radley	    NYC Public Unix	jpr@jpr.com	CIS: 72160,1341