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- From: frank@halcyon.com (Frank Higgins)
- Subject: Re: NEW 7300's in Chicago
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.124323.14340@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- References: <1993Jan6.220401.27043@nwnexus.WA.COM> <C0Kutu.8u1@olwejo.UUCP>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 12:43:23 GMT
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- In article <C0Kutu.8u1@olwejo.UUCP> olwejo!bob@cs.widener.edu writes:
- >In <1993Jan6.220401.27043@nwnexus.WA.COM>, frank@halcyon.com writes:
- >> $160 each for entire inventory (about 900)
- >> (about 400 NON-functioning, non-warranteed
- >> units thrown in FREE. No Found Set included.)
- >[...]
- >> 4000 Foundation Sets in shrink wrap
- >
- >Everytime a warehouse full of thousands of these things show up, it makes
- >me wonder actually how many were manufactured? Does anyone know numbers
- >for manufacturing runs? With 4,000 Foundation sets found above, I'd
- >guess that 3b1/7300 production made over 50,000 units. Anybody got
- >any facts or figures?
- >
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-
- No documented facts. But, shortly after AT&T announced discontinuance of
- the UNIX-PC (7300 and 3B1), I had several conversations with the man at
- Convergent Technologies who was in charge of marketing the S/5 (or some
- such model designation for CT's equivalent of the 3B1). He told me much
- "folklore" of Convergent's relationship with AT&T and what CT planned to do
- with the line (they were going to establish a free hotline for ALL owners
- of UNIX-PCs, and replicate the STORE, and upgrade the3B1 with even larger
- HD, color, etc., etc.). Unfortunately the 286-386 machines stole their
- market and they dropped the idea. In the conversations he said that AT&T's
- marketing projections were for sale of 50,000 per year, BUT that **less
- than 50,000*** wer sold over the entire life of the product. He left the
- impression that less than 50,000 were manufactured as AT&T had no mandate
- to order any fixed minimum from CT, but that CT had to produce what AT&T
- wanted. AT&T never ordered many because they never sold many.
-
- Maybe someone else has more or different "facts".
-
- The stuff in the Chicago warehouse has an interesting history. Mexico
- apparently bought 1000 - 1500 UNIX PC's for their equivalent of IRS. The
- machines in Chi were intended to go to Mexico (ordered by whom, I don't
- know). Mexican authorities wouldn;t let the shipment into Mexico. AT&T was
- stuck with them and looked for a way to unload them without taking them
- back into AT&T inventory. As a result, they found their way to Chicago. I
- have no idea whether the machines in the Mexican IRS and the machines in
- Chicago have any relationship at all. I mention the IRS machines only for
- background that the Mexican Government had allowed such machines into
- Mexico earlier, and in comparable quantities.
-
-
- Frank
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