#: 7465 S15/Hot Topics
    17-Oct-90  15:53:56
Sb: #7421-#Fest
Fm: Ed Gresick 76576,3312
To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)


Paul:

I was appalled to read your message to John Wainwright (message #7421). It
appears that your marketing strategy is based on Madison Ave's first tenet,
"appeal to the 85 per cent".  (From Thomas A Edison's, "Five per cent of the
people think, ten per cent of the people think they think and eighty-five per
cent of the people would rather die than think".)  Statements like 'I have
heard' and 'flaky' say nothing concrete but can certainly have some very
negative connotations.  If there are problems with your PT, what are they?  I
understand you purchased your PT second hand.  The original buyer put it
together from a kit.  Also, if we have traced things properly, he received
version 1.4 of OS9/68000 - a version of OS9/68000 replete with problems
regardless of the machine on which it was installed.  We are currently shipping
version 2.3 and will ship version 2.4 when it is released.  What have you heard
about the SYSTEM IV?  If you really want to know about the SYSTEM IV, why don't
you buy one?  We will certainly be happy to sell you one and we can deliver
*immediately*.

You used the term 'CM-8/Multisync'.  I was not aware that the CM-8 is a
multisync monitor.  The CM-8, as provided by Tandy, is a 300 x 225 monitor. 
Tricks can be played to make it look like as good as a higher resolution
monitor, but it can still only display low resolution graphics. Or, are you
refering to the Magnavox monitor?  While better than the Tandy CM-8, it still
does not approach accepted VGA standards.

How many people want an NTSC output?  Yes, you can video tape your output. Try
reading a 80 character screen on a TV.  That's why people went to monitors in
the first place and if 80 character is hard to read, how good can the graphics
be?  The 68070/66470 chip set does support NTSC capability but the trade-off is
a compromise of the graphics capability so it is not as good as VGA provides. 
Since the SYSTEM IV allows the use of existing PC/XT boards, NTSC is available
to the user (but we do not currently support NTSC boards).

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