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From: pete@tsc.dec.com (Pete Schmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: UNIXpc discontinued...
Message-ID: <371@tsc.dec.com>
Date: 7 Mar 88 16:02:56 GMT
References: <246@bacchus> <749@gethen.UUCP>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Lines: 17
Summary: any definitive answer to this??
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In article <749@gethen.UUCP>, isaac@gethen.UUCP (Isaac Rabinowitz) writes:
> About 1 1/2 years ago I was a CT employee.  It was clear even then that
> the product was dead and that ATT was continuing to buy them only out
> of bureaucratic inertia.  Paul Ely used to tell us that the only reason
> the machine didn't move was ATT's failure to market it properly; he
> hoped to obtain the right to sell the machine to other OEMs and/or under
> CT's label.  Don't know where this went, as I (and 1/4 of my co-workers)
> left the company about that time.  But I wonder what would happen if
> CT got a few thousand inquiries of the form "Are you gonna sell it
> yourself now?"


I certainly be interested to know if the machine is still going to be
produced.  I had one (7300) at home when I worked for AT&T and thought
it was a great workstation, but I think it should have been sold as a
PC and not a workstation.  Will CT sell this, if so I'll probably
buy one.