dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) (12/05/88)
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
dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) (12/05/88)
Oh yeah, one more thing. AT&T should have included the $355 Reference manual in the deal. Why keep the architecture a secret? -- Dave Arnold dave@arnold.volt.com Volt Delta Resources Phone: (714) 921-7635
gws@n8emr.UUCP (Gary Sanders ) (12/07/88)
In article <260@arnold.UUCP> dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) writes: >Following is a list of items that I feel would have made the UNIXpc a >success, instead of a belly flop. > David, The problem with AT&T and the unixpc was.. It was designed by salesman......... and Sold my engineers. -- Gary W. Sanders (osu-cis!n8emr!gws, gws@osu-cis) (cis) 72277,1325 (packet) N8EMR @ W8CQK (ip addr) 44.70.0.1 HAM/SWL/SCANNER BBS (1200/2400/19.2-PEP) 614-457-4227