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From: rwb@bene.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM's new System 2 Personal Computers
Message-ID: <478@bene.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Apr-87 15:08:21 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  5 15:08:21 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Apr-87 00:02:47 EST
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Summary: comments on a misleading posting....

In article <775@oliveb.UUCP>, tslu@oliveb.UUCP (Shang Lu) writes:
> 
> The following is a summary of two articles from local San Jose
> Mercury News, concerning the newly announced IBM Personal System 2
> Personal Computers:

this series of quotes taken out of context is NOT a "summary" of
the Mercury News articles; the tone of the articles was actually
pretty neutral.

While I am not anxious to defend IBM, I think this poster is
presenting a misleading view of both the articles and the new machines..

> 
> *  The Model 30 is a JOKE !!
> 
>                 -- Kimball Brown
>                    Computer Industry Analyst, Dataquest Inc. San Jose

An 8 MHz machine with 480 x 640 16 color graphics is a joke ?
It is a bit expensive though...

> 
> *  Apple has a minimum of a one-year lead, IBM has a long way to
>    get where the MAC is now.
> 
>                 -- Eugene Glazer
>                    Computer Stock Analyst
>                    Dean Witter Reynolds, New York

One could easily argue that the Mac has a long way to go to catch up
with the new IBM machines; the new PCs have color, higher resolution
graphics, faster CPUs and higher capacity disks.

>    It is like General Motors changing all their cars and then
>    having no gas to put into them.
> 
>                 -- John Sculley
>                    Chairman, Apple Computer

Of course the best place to go for some objective comments is
the president of the company that has the most to lose if the
new IBM machines are a success...