toc@dadla.UUCP (06/03/86)
------- [For the sake of any old, musty, buggy news code still floating around] Oh dearie me... Almost exactly one year ago I posted to this newsgroup a message containing the following excerpt from DTACK GROUNDED: "Let us assume that AT&T succeeds in stopping production after only 50,000 UNIX PCs have been built. Of that 50,000 about 10,000 will have been sold. AT&T will purchase 8,500 itself, the recently divested telephone operating companies...will buy 1,483 units, and the rest of the world will buy 17." I followed this by a request that everyone not associated with AT&T who bought one of these beasties send a postcard to the editor of DTACK GROUNDED (one Felgerkarb N. Eloi (at least I can still spell his name wrong :-)) stating that they had done so. The idea was to bury FNE under 17 miles of postcards. He recieved exactly one. It is now a year later. An excerpt from the Wall Street Journal, May 30th: "Last year, Convergent shipped some 40,000 to 50,000 of the Unix-PC units. But AT&T has only sold 10,000, according to industry sources, and many of those were sold to AT&T's own divisions. In the first quarter of this year, AT&T sold only 2,000, far fewer than projected." Man, can that FNE predict!!! Had I been more familiar with his newsletter I would have never sent the original posting. This man has seldom been wrong in a prediction. Often sarcastic, perhaps pessemistic, but seldom wrong. BTW: Any evidence of opinion in the above should not be construed to have anything to do with my employer (If you can even guess who that is). In fact, no opinion above should be considered to be coming from me! I know who the opinions come from, but am not a liberty to point any fingers. Living in the future is seldom what it should be, to'c