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From: wayne@teemc.UUCP (//ichael R. //ayne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Obsolete Computers
Keywords: Fortune 32:16
Message-ID: <4029@teemc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 00:47:52 GMT
References: <2190@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: wayne@teemc.UUCP (/\/\ichael R. \/\/ayne)
Organization: TMC & Associates, Troy, MI
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In article <2190@ssc-vax.UUCP> paema@ssc-vax.UUCP (Marvin P Willoughby) writes:
>Does anyone know if anything is left of the old Fortune Systems.
>
>I thought it would just be a matter of time before the thing folded
>and left everyone high and dry. Fortune never did give much support
>anyway so far as I can tell.

	Ford Motor Company bought a lot of these things in their first
wave of office automation.  There are still a lot of them in use today,
I think Ford does all their own support (H/W & S/W).  For what they were,
the Fortunes were nice machines.  Unfortunately, Fortune did not provide
much of an upgrade path.
	There is a place that sells old Fortune equipment.  It is really
a subsidiary of Fortune.  When I was in the market for an inexpensive
system, I contacted them and decided that their prices were too high (still!).
	Fortune went bankrupt at one point.  Ford picks computer companies
well, another "corporate standard" was the Victor 9000, which also went
bankrupt.  The present "standard" is IBM, (we're all hoping the trend will
continue... :-)

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