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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: misc.invest,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tandy buys GRiD
Message-ID: <677@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 17:48:49 GMT
References: <966@bdmrrr.bdm.com>
Organization: Acorn Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
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Summary: Grideo Shack?

In article <966@bdmrrr.bdm.com>, rudy@bdmrrr.bdm.com (Scott W. Rudy III) writes:
> I just heard that Tandy purchased the durable laptop PC company, GRiD.

This is true.

> Apparently there was an article in the Wall Street Journal that
> described the deal in detail.  Does anyone have any info on this deal?

Nothing more than you read in the paper.  Holders of Grid stock (i.e.,
employees, founders, and venture capitalists) will have their shares
exchanged for Tandy stock this summer.

> Will we begin to see GRiDs in Radio Shack stores?  Will GRiD's
> corporate headquarters get shuffled?

No and no.  Grid will continue to do its own sales and marketing.

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Bob Weissman
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