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From: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
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Subject: Peanut announced
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Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 20:40:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  1 20:40:18 1983
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Well, the Peanut has been announced, but called the PC Jr. "to reflect that
it is part of a family of products" according to an IBM'er.  Priced in the
US at $669 for one model, $1269 for another, it appears to have better sound
and graphics abilities (even animation) than the PC, but I don't know about
memory, disk drives, etc., though I believe that $669 gets you 64K.  No
more details than that in the account I saw (PBS's Nightly Business Report).
The big news is that it won't be delivered until 1Q 84-- AFTER Christmas.
IBM expects to sell $1B (yes, B as in billion) worth of them in 84.