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From: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: misc.invest,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tandy buys GRiD
Message-ID: <112@atpal.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 20:40:36 GMT
References: <966@bdmrrr.bdm.com>
Reply-To: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: Rational Technologies, Inc.
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Keywords: tandy grid
Summary: Don't Panic

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

Tandy announced that GRiD will be operated as an independent subdivision, and
the current chairman signed a 2-year deal, so I wouldn't worry.  Tandy wants
to use GRiD's entree into Fortune 500 executive suites as a way to improve
its marketing position on the whole product line.  According to my salesman,
there will be no change in pricing, sales support or customer service anytime
soon.  GRiD may open some new overseas offices, and some new product lines
may use Tandy's manufacturing facilities, but that's all I've heard.  The
GRiD we know and love[/hate??] will be around for a while -- knock netwood.

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Tom Neff