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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: IBM Develops PC Product in 14 weeks
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:15:52 GMT
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- In article <37214@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
- >You've missed two other points:
- >
- >1) IBM regularly develops better hardware and puts it on ice until
- > competitive developments force them to release it.
- >
- >2) IBM regularly holds prices to max the market will bear for as
- > long as they can, then announced overnight price reductions
- > in response to product releases or price reductions by their
- > competitors.
-
- IBM has gotten better recently. IBM's spinoff printer division recently
- developed a color inkjet printer with built-in PostScript that is in all ways
- better than HP's PaintJet XL300, with a lower list price to boot. The
- same division has been producing low-cost 600DPI PostScript printers for
- some time, and HP only recently caught up with them. At the very least, HP
- is starting to feel quite a bit of heat from IBM.
-
- >George Robbins - now working for, work: to be avoided at all costs...
- >but no way officially representing: uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
- >Commodore, Engineering Department domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
-
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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