Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!nbires!hao!hplabs!pyramid!decwrl!sun!imagen!SofPasuk From: SofPasuk@imagen.UUCP (Munach Rvi'i) Newsgroups: net.micro.att Subject: Re: CT marketing of UNIX PC? Message-ID: <624@imagen.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 11:40:52 EDT Article-I.D.: imagen.624 Posted: Tue Oct 21 11:40:52 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Oct-86 02:40:45 EDT References: <341@petrus.UUCP> <750@ncc.UUCP> <432@spdcc.UUCP> <734@hropus.UUCP> Organization: Tohu VaVohu Lines: 13 > > (I'm just waiting for AT&T to bail out on it and then start seeing > > the overstock sold by DAK: can anyone guess the headline on the ad?) > > I don't know about the headline, but I am sure you have to buy at least > 2 dozen cassettes :-) > Don't know about the headline, either. However, Drew Kaplan might tell about how the marketing people at CT thought that the 7300 would be so popular and successful that AT&T would stop all their own internal work on computers and buy everything oem from CT. He might also tell about CT's major diversion of resource from every other project such that all the eggs would be put into this basket and how CT's marketing and executive staff pissed off the other major oems (Burroughs et al) in the process ...