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Subject: Re: ADAM and Cloeco - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 5-Oct-83 22:34:25 EDT
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uiuccsb!leimkuhl    Oct  5 15:23:00 1983



I saw that article too, but I didn't give the reporter much credit.  On
Friday, Coleco issued a rebuttal saying that the reporter had blatantly
misquoted one of the Coleco execs there on several points (that was in
the monday 10/3 WSJ).

I got the impression that the reporter was sort of looking for problems
with the machine and missed many of the good points (the most important
being that the machine actually performed for the first time).  The fact
that the word processing program wasn't perfect the first time it was 
demonstrated shouldn't surprise any of us who have ever used commercial
software.

The real acid test of the new machine is the BYTE review, not some un-
knowledgeable reporter's first impressions.

-Ben Leimkuhler