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From: jww@bonnie.UUCP (Joel West)
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Subject: Cancellation of Apple fileserver?
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Date: Sat, 25-May-85 15:40:43 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 25 15:40:43 1985
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In Thursday's Wall Street Journal there was a cryptic article that
suggests Apple may have cancelled plans for its previously announced (and
promised "Real Soon Now") file server.  Does anyone know the straight scoop?

[WSJ, May 23, p. 2....]

...[Apple will close a factory] that made prototypes of products the
company had intended to introduce this fall.

   Those products under development, a file server and a 20-megabyte
hard-disk dirve, are important parts of Apple's office-equipment
line [called] the Macintosh Office.  When the line was introduced,
Apple officials said the two products probably would be on the market by fall.

   Apple now says it is negotiating contracts with other manufacturers
to supply a file server and the necessary disk drives.  Apple said the
equipment will bear its label.

   ...Despite the closing of the San Jose plant, Apple intends to 
continue interal research efforts into hard disk products, [a spokeswoman]
said....
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