Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!ccicpg!arnold!dave From: dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Observations on the failure of the 7300 Message-ID: <260@arnold.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 88 00:26:17 GMT Organization: Home, Mission Viejo, Ca Lines: 37 Following is a list of items that I feel would have made the UNIXpc a success, instead of a belly flop. 1) Market the beast for Computer nuts. Instead of Business Lotus 1-2-3 users. In it's time, it was a pretty spiffy system. 2) Put sockets on the motherboard for RAM expansion!!! Now really, how much extra could this cost AT&T? And just provide 1 meg of 256k bit drams as the entry level system. 3) If AT&T never introduced the system with a 10 or 20 meg 85 ms. hard disk, it wouldn't have got the bad press in the early days! 4) Have a entry system price tag of $3500 instead of $6500. Really guys, you blew it!! 5) Offer a SCSI bus option!! 6) Give the video as much vertical resolution as horizontol resolution. 7) Skip the whole UA business... This did more harm than good. I bought my system Dec. 24 1986 used before fire sale prices for $1500. At the time, it had a 10meg drive, with 512k. And version 1.5 of the kernel... Yes 1.5 what ever that was. I'm happy with it though. Recently, I almost put it in the closest and bought a 386 system, but figured I could get more life out of it. It is showing it's age though. Oh well... -- Dave Arnold dave@arnold.volt.com Volt Delta Resources Phone: (714) 921-7635