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From: jrw@hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: CT marketing of UNIX PC?
Message-ID: <731@hropus.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 15:35:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 15 15:35:54 1986
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> 
> >        Convergent Technologies announced that they are going to market
> >the UNIX(TM)PC 7300 themselves in addition to selling it to AT&T. 
> 
> Having spent a few net bytes griping about ATTIS' "orphaned response"
> to their 7300 all I can say is, if true, good for them!
> 
> I still think the PC7300 is one of the best home computers I've seen
> (now howsabout a 68020 upgrade so we can really crow?) It's still, as
> is, years ahead of similarly priced machines.
> 
> Sex, Drugs and Unix...
> 
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University

YES!  Convergent is marketing the PC as an S/50.  They have a 2 page ad in
the Oct. 86 Mini-Micro Systems magazine.  It looks just like it does now
with the exception that no deathstar adorns the bottom of the monitor.
(Hmm, I wonder what the "working" icon looks like :-)  Interesting, though,
is that the ad states the machine can have a max of only 2 meg, I know you
can put 4 meg in the PC, 2 on the motherboard and 2 on an expansion card, so
maybe the ad men haven't been talking with the techies.  At least the ad
doesn't claim the power of a vax...
-- 
Jim Webb             "Out of phase--get help"          ...!ihnp4!hropus!jrw