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From: SofPasuk@imagen.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 7300 UNIX PC
Message-ID: <881@imagen.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 12:07:01 EST
Article-I.D.: imagen.881
Posted: Thu Feb 19 12:07:01 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Feb-87 22:10:20 EST
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Summary: Convergent Technologies will sell you one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In article <125@toylnd.UUCP>, amh@toylnd.UUCP (Anne M. Holler) writes:
 > 
 >      Hi, I'm a graduate student at the University of Virginia.  Strangely
 > enough though I never worked for AT&T I own half of a 7300 UNIX PC.
 > After seeing that the price had been dropped on the machine in "INFO WORLD"
 > I thought it might be a good time to get a whole machine of my own.
 > Enquiring after the price of a 7300 system at our local student computer
 > store (Cavalier computers) has been an exercise in frustration.  They
 > talked to their AT&T rep about the latest discount prices but he says
 > he doesn't have them.  The passage of a month hasn't brought any more progress.
 >     Seeing as how their appears to be a block on this end of the pipeline I
 > attempted to push from the other end by calling the AT&T hotline and
 > get someone to either supply the information to our local AT&T
 > rep or at least push on him to get it for himself.  Unfortunately the
 > person I ended up talking to didn't know the prices either and espoused
 > that there was nothing further they could do.
 >      I've heard of lousy marketing but being unwilling to sell machines
 > that you purportedly market to a willing customer has to take the cake.
 > I know that a 386 based PC clone is a whole lot more bang for my buck
 > but I intensely dislike the 8?86 architecture and would rather take
 > a lower performance machine than support "first with the worst".
 > The 7300 is a nice machine in a nice package with reasonably good software,
 > quite over priced but nice.  If I can get a good price on it I may buy another
 > one but I certainly can't if no one will sell me one.  Is their anyone out
 > there who can help me?
 > 
 > Anne M. Holler
 > 
 > Snail:
 > 2411 Peyton Dr. Apt 207
 > Charlottesville VA 22901
 > Usenet:
 > amh@toylnd

Contact Convergent Technologies in San Jose, CA.  Being that AT&T didn't know
how to sell those machines, CT is now trying to sell them directly ...