CT marketing of UNIX PC?
Barry Shein
> Convergent Technologies announced that they are going to market
>the UNIX(TM)PC 7300 themselves in addition to selling it to AT&T.
Having spent a few net bytes griping about ATTIS' "orphaned response"
to their 7300 all I can say is, if true, good for them!
I still think the PC7300 is one of the best home computers I've seen
(now howsabout a 68020 upgrade so we can really crow?) It's still, as
is, years ahead of similarly priced machines.
Sex, Drugs and Unix...
-Barry Shein, Boston University
Mark Steven Jeghers
> Convergent Technologies announced that they are going to market
>the UNIX(TM)PC 7300 themselves in addition to selling it to AT&T.
>Does anyone have anymore info on their plans such as name of the
>machine, enhancements, new peripherals, new software, etc? And will all
>of this be compatible with the 7300 box as it comes from AT&T ?
>
>Phil Karn, Sr
I want to know too! Also, I've heard that CT has (or might) go under.
Is this a rumor? If not, will there be any way to get the nicer UNIX PC
from CT (e.g. will another firm pick them up?)
{ dual, ptsfa }!cogent!mark
Lyndon Nerenberg
>
> Convergent Technologies announced that they are going to market
> the UNIX(TM)PC 7300 themselves in addition to selling it to AT&T.
> Does anyone have anymore info on their plans such as name of the
> machine, enhancements, new peripherals, new software, etc? And will all
> of this be compatible with the 7300 box as it comes from AT&T ?
I have been waiting for the last week to get prices on this little beasty!
The information I have (unconfirmed by anyone other than my distributor)
is that it is an honest to god 7300, with a CT sticker, 7300 software,
etc., etc. Until now, Computerland has had the exclusive rights on the
7300 in Canada. I don't think their sales staff are aware that independant
vendors and VAR's will be able to market the machine - boy are they in for
a surprise!!!
Now all I need to do is figure out who would want to own one...
--
Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM) {ihnp4,ubc-vision,watmath}!alberta!ncc!lyndon
Systems Group - A Div. of Nexus Computing Corp. Envoy_100: Unix
Jim Webb
YES! Convergent is marketing the PC as an S/50. They have a 2 page ad in
the Oct. 86 Mini-Micro Systems magazine. It looks just like it does now
with the exception that no deathstar adorns the bottom of the monitor.
(Hmm, I wonder what the "working" icon looks like :-) Interesting, though,
is that the ad states the machine can have a max of only 2 meg, I know you
can put 4 meg in the PC, 2 on the motherboard and 2 on an expansion card, so
maybe the ad men haven't been talking with the techies. At least the ad
doesn't claim the power of a vax...
--
Jim Webb "Out of phase--get help" ...!ihnp4!hropus!jrw
Steve Dyer
Currently, it's grossly over-priced, especially for the 3B1 model.
(I'm just waiting for AT&T to bail out on it and then start seeing
the overstock sold by DAK: can anyone guess the headline on the ad?)
--
Steve Dyer
dy...@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
{linus,wanginst,bbnccv,harvard,ima,ihnp4}!spdcc!dyer
Jim Webb
> the overstock sold by DAK: can anyone guess the headline on the ad?)
I don't know about the headline, but I am sure you have to buy at least
2 dozen cassettes :-)
lyn...@ncc.uucp
>> Convergent Technologies announced that they are going to market
>>the UNIX(TM)PC 7300 themselves in addition to selling it to AT&T.
>>Phil Karn, Sr
>I want to know too! Also, I've heard that CT has (or might) go under.
eh?
>Is this a rumor?
I would certainly hope so!
>{ dual, ptsfa }!cogent!mark
Where on earth (or elsewhere) did you hear this?
CT is still in business as of 11:30AM MDT this morning.
Being one of the largest manufacturers of Unix systems (don't forget all
those Burroughs B20's either) with some very large OEM contracts, I can't
see Convergent just "going under".
C'mon Mark - give us some facts here! Just what did you hear, when, and where?
Munach Rvi'i
> > the overstock sold by DAK: can anyone guess the headline on the ad?)
>
> I don't know about the headline, but I am sure you have to buy at least
> 2 dozen cassettes :-)
>
how the marketing people at CT thought that the 7300 would be so popular and
successful that AT&T would stop all their own internal work on computers and
buy everything oem from CT. He might also tell about CT's major diversion of
resource from every other project such that all the eggs would be put into this
basket and how CT's marketing and executive staff pissed off the other major
oems (Burroughs et al) in the process ...
bst...@gorgo.uucp
I seriously doubt that CT will be marketing the UNIX PC products themselves,
though they might offer something VERY similar in the form of another
miniframe derivative. (*personal flame starts here*)
I agree totally with bzs, the UNIX PC is a nice little box.
It is very easy for some folks at a very big company to say "well pooh,
we only sold 10 thousand this year...", when some other pretty big companies
would be estatic at that number and would get major headlines in
conspiracy newspapers. (*personal flame ends here*)
AT&T is not by any means dropping support on the UNIX PC. In fact they have
just announced a number of new options for it, including an external
expansion backplane, and have just released SVR3, a voice compression and
storage board for phone messaging/voice mail, and ethernet TCP/IP for it.
This is not a bunch of hype, I really like these.
Steve Blasingame (Oklahoma City)
ihnp4!occrsh!gorgo!bsteve
bst...@eris.Berkeley.Edu