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From: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: IBM RT: first impressions
Message-ID: <3019@pesnta.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 00:16:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 00:16:47 1986
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Reply-To: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace)
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In article <361@utastro.UUCP> nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>> Seriously, though, whenever you bring in a certain three letters
>> into the subject, then performance becomes moot.  Certain people,
>> many of whom are in the position to make purchasing decisions,
>> would tend to buy anything and everything they can from IBM.  If
>> the RT does get off the ground, it won't be because of performance,
>> but simply because it has an 'IBM' label on the front.
>> -- 
>> Tim (radzy) Radzykewycz, The Incredible Radical Cabbage.
>
>Riiiiiiiight.  Just like the PC Jr. had. (Note past tense).
>
>But, by all means, let's keep the theory, and throw away any data that
>don't fit.  We call that "scientific."
>
>-- 
>Ed Nather
>Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
>{allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather
>nather@astro.UTEXAS.EDU

Anyone who thinks those three letters don't sell, I feel sorry for them.
The PC Jr. was targeted for the masses; just plain folk like you and me.  
The RT sure as hell ain't going to end up in the masses homes unless its 
price drops to $5000 or less for a fully functional system.  So, the big
boys are going to buy the RT because they have the bucks to spend.  When your
boss knows next to nothing about computers and he has been tasked by his
boss to purchase one, who do you think he is going to buy from?  It does
seem to be true that no one has ever been fired for buying IBM.

I bet you thought that the boss would ask one of his worker-bees
to research into the purchase of the computer, eh? HA! BULL! Maybe
he/she will ask the bee to do the research but I'll bet the bossman
will ask why IBM is not at the top of your list! 
	
P.S. - What about fair elections while we're at it....