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From: tecot@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Edward Tecot)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Tandy Flamage
Message-ID: <480@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 04:40:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-k.480
Posted: Sun Jul 14 04:40:44 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 03:08:06 EDT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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Have to put in my two cents worth (please no net.appropriate comments)

>>Are you trying to say that TANDY is stealing engineers from Apple :-)
>
>Tandy doesn't have that big a sense of humor.

Come now, they must; look at what they're producing.

>>Anyway, who takes Tandy equipment seriously?
>>( Spoken like a true MacBiggot )
>
>People who don't like to wait a hundred years for disk drives, aren't
>color blind, like IBM compatability, and aren't stupid enough to pay
>$3000 for $400 worth of parts (if you don't belive me, open up your
>MAC).

No, instead, they pay $2000 for $400 worth of parts that they can't use
as a computer until they spend $1000 more on things like a monitor,
a monitor board.  BTW, there is more than $400 worth of parts in the Mac;
assuming that you pay the best wholesale prices at quantity one; just the
drive, picture tube, power supply, and memory alone, you would be hard pressed
to get at under $600.  I have a Tandy computer; I have found it most useful
as a doorstop; the weight is right.  Anyone who puts a high precedence
on IBM compatibility has been reading too much PC magazine.  Wake up
and smell the coffee.