7300 UNIX PC
SofPasuk at imagen.UUCP
SofPasuk at imagen.UUCP
Fri Feb 20 03:07:01 AEST 1987
In article <125 at toylnd.UUCP>, amh at toylnd.UUCP (Anne M. Holler) writes:
>
> Hi, I'm a graduate student at the University of Virginia. Strangely
> enough though I never worked for AT&T I own half of a 7300 UNIX PC.
> After seeing that the price had been dropped on the machine in "INFO WORLD"
> I thought it might be a good time to get a whole machine of my own.
> Enquiring after the price of a 7300 system at our local student computer
> store (Cavalier computers) has been an exercise in frustration. They
> talked to their AT&T rep about the latest discount prices but he says
> he doesn't have them. The passage of a month hasn't brought any more progress.
> Seeing as how their appears to be a block on this end of the pipeline I
> attempted to push from the other end by calling the AT&T hotline and
> get someone to either supply the information to our local AT&T
> rep or at least push on him to get it for himself. Unfortunately the
> person I ended up talking to didn't know the prices either and espoused
> that there was nothing further they could do.
> I've heard of lousy marketing but being unwilling to sell machines
> that you purportedly market to a willing customer has to take the cake.
> I know that a 386 based PC clone is a whole lot more bang for my buck
> but I intensely dislike the 8?86 architecture and would rather take
> a lower performance machine than support "first with the worst".
> The 7300 is a nice machine in a nice package with reasonably good software,
> quite over priced but nice. If I can get a good price on it I may buy another
> one but I certainly can't if no one will sell me one. Is their anyone out
> there who can help me?
>
> Anne M. Holler
>
> Snail:
> 2411 Peyton Dr. Apt 207
> Charlottesville VA 22901
> Usenet:
> amh at toylnd
Contact Convergent Technologies in San Jose, CA. Being that AT&T didn't know
how to sell those machines, CT is now trying to sell them directly ...
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