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Date: 8 Jul 88 14:25:00 GMT
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I haven't heard that Tandy will be marketing the Grid laptops, but I have heard
speculation that the Grid manufacturing and design resources will be used for
future Tandy laptops (b.t.w. "speculation" is another term for rumor).

The Grid line will benefit from the increased buying power and marketing
resources of Tandy, which logically will reduce production costs.  Grid is
into extremely rugged, extremely reliable computers.  This is why they insist
on the magnesium alloy cases and gas plasma displays.  It's quite easy to 
imagine the guts of a grid in a plastic case and with and LCD screen.  It
still wouldn't be cheap, but it would be a whole lot more reasonable.

Rest assured, Tandy didn't buy Grid for grins.  Tandy is very serious about
aquiring and developing new technologies (such as the erasable optical disks
announced earlier this year).  Its really much too soon to tell, but the Grid
aquisition is probably going to improve both Tandy's and Grid's computer lines.

By the way, rarely if ever do I know what I'm talking about.  These are simply
rumors and speculations as to what might happen.  I never know what Tandy is
really going to do until I get the same press releases you read in the paper.

					       John Reynolds
					       Software Type Person
					       Tandy Electronics R&D