merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (12/21/89)
In article <33294@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, kawakami@ocf (John Kawakami) writes: | Televideo, which five years ago was making $170 million on terminal | sales, now faces a sea of red ink. Hartmann plans to use the Atari | formula to bring back the company's fortunes. "My pnals are to run a | lean, lean, lean organization." The Atari formula? Hmm, what could that be? 1. Start by making a little video game inside each of the terminals. Make it play table tennis... [steps 2 through 5 deleted because I have to get back to work :-] 6. Preannounce lotsa nifty new advanced terminal designs to get the public taking Televideo as a "serious contender" in the marketplace. 7. Put an end to any preannouncements because of failure to deliver products within the expected timeframe. 8. Spin off the most profitable section of the company (the arcade-style graphics board). 9. Purchase a series of consumer retail stores that previously sold Wyse 60's to eliminate the competition's distribution. 10. Announce a "laptop terminal" through the rumor mill, but deny it vehemontly in comp.sys.terminal.televideo. 11. Sell off the consumer retail stores at a tremendous loss, to drop the value of the stock so that the insiders can pick it up cheap. 12. Start selling a "cash-register compatible terminal" with ads in Business Week and WSJ to advance the "business" image. 13. Have Sig go off to a different company. :-) :-) Just a happy user of my old "first off the assembly line" ST, -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/