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From: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Tandy diversifies into the toaster market?
Message-ID: <8174@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 88 15:50:43 GMT
References: <5442@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <5442@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
>
>  Tandy just posted a message in misc.jobs.offered looking for programmers.
>If you have expeience in 8088/80386 assembly, C, OR MACINTOSH PROGRAMMING.
>blah blah blah....
>
> Hmmm...

A number of things I have heard recently seem to add up to Tandy
making a real attempt at cloning the Mac. I have heard rumors that
Phoenix, famed cloners of IBM-PC BIOS code, are working on a Mac ROM
clone. I think I recall seeing recruitment ads from them looking for
680x0 people.

Putting such a machine on the market in the near future makes
excellent sense, since Apple has departed the low end of the Mac
market leaving nothing but a vacuum to suck in the clone makers.
Personally, I think Apple deserves a bit of competition at this point,
because the Mac hasn't become the computer for the rest of us -- it
has become the computer for the rest of us overpaid white male
business establishment types who can afford the present entry fee of
about $3500 for an SE with 2Mb RAM, 20Mb disk and an Imagewriter.

$3500 is an entry level system, for gosh sakes, and those are "street"
prices. In terms of cost of goods sold, you should be able to sell an
equivalent system at a discounted retail price of $2500, easily.

-Zigurd
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