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From: mdh@srhqla.UUCP (Matt Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ridge
Subject: Re: Ridge demise?
Keywords: Ridge
Message-ID: <319@srhqla.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 02:10:13 GMT
References: <5881@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: mdh@srhqla.UUCP (Matt Hardin)
Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
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In article <5881@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> hare@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Hare) writes:
>The recent rumor heard on the street is that Ridge Computers will no longer be
>around in several months. Anyone care to comment on the accuracy of this
>statement or care to just speculate??

We received a letter in the mail from Larry Lunetta of Ridge saying something
like this:

We made lots of money selling off the remaining 3200's that we could build.
Nobody (including Bull Corp) wants any more 3200's.
We're closing up shop.
Don't worry - a third party maintenance company will take over maintenance.

That's a summary of the letter we got. We had an idea that they were going
to pull something like this anyway, so we bought a Pyramid 9825 (faster and
better than a Ridge 3200) last October. We are in the final phases of 
porting our software to the Pyramid. When we complete the port and go "live",
we will be de-commissioning the Ridge and stripping out the disk drives for
use on the Pyramid. The Ridge will then be put up for sale. Anyone interested?


				Matt Hardin
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