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From: knudsen@ihnss.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.trs-80
Subject: Model 4P and Rumors
Message-ID: <2117@ihnss.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 19:19:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 22 19:19:52 1984
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<feed it>

The current argument over the Model 4P's future just goes to show that Tandy's
corporate policy of secrecy and carefully massaged information releases
has led to an environment that feeds on rumors.  Most TRS-80 magazines allude
to this fact.  At the local level, Radio Shack dealers don't even know what's
going to be on sale the next day, let alone what models are going to be
discontinued next month.  And even if they had a confidential contact inside
Fort Worth, no, make that TWO conytacts, they'd probably get at least two
different answers from them.  The sad fact is that the 4P's designer would 
probably learn that his baby was discontinued when he saw the sale notice
in his Radio Shack flyer at the local store.  Large companies are like this;
they can't trust mere engineers like us with sales strategies.
	I'm glad to see trsvax on the net; its existence implies Tandy is
serious about software development, and not totally dependent on Microsoft
et al.  
	By the way, what about the rumor that the Micro COlor COmputer is
being phased out?

"Rumors are our most valuable source of information.  One of them must be true."
	mike k