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From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: UNIX PC going into production again?
Message-ID: <659@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 27 Feb 88 00:02:38 GMT
References: <1029@woton.UUCP>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.UUCP (Boyd Ostroff)
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Organization: SUNY Oswego
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Keywords: rumors, gossip, lies, and dreams

In article <1029@woton.UUCP> riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) writes:
>
>On the other hand, the latest gossip is that AT&T (or presumably
>Convergent) is about to put the UNIX PC into production again
>

In the March issue of UNIX WORLD ("Can You Afford a Workstation Yet?", p50)
Walter Zintz writes:

	"Then there is what may be the greatest workstation bargain of them
	all - AT&T's foundling, the 3B1.

	(description of the 3B1 omitted)

	Then AT&T marketers overpriced it and compounded the problem by
	pushing it as a PC.  Sales went nowhere; the warehouse started to
	overflow.  So AT&T had a giveaway clearance sale last summer and 
	now has them made in much smaller quantities."
	    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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