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    29-Oct-90  21:49:09
Sb: #7815-#Fest
Fm: Frank Hogg of FHL 70310,317
To: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111

Mike,

There seems to be confusion about what a Tomcat is and that also seems to
confuse those who read my message to Paul the other day. Please refer to my
current ads in Rainbow for the last months where I tried to clarify this very
issue. The problem lies in the ability for the Tomcat to be more than one thing
while also being different things. It can be a TC9 or a TC70 or also any K-Bus
based computer we make or all of them. When we decided to come out with the
Tomcat as a product we decided to include ALL computers based on the K-Bus. The
TC9, TC70 and all the other K-Bus boards can be assembled in a bewildering
array to create various types of computers all of which fall under the heading
of TOMCAT!

Consider the Mac. What is a Mac? Mac is the name of the computer type like
Tomcat. A Mac SE is one model of the Mac. A TC9 is one model of the Tomcat.
Unlike the Mac the Tomcat can be more than one computer at the SAME TIME which
is where the confusion is. The Tomcat is like NO other computer in the WORLD!
There is nothing to compare it too. The Tomcat defies description because of
its flexibility and that is my main marketing problem.

Sorry for your confusion, the Tomcats you saw at Atlanta were not running
either a TC9 or TC70. They were running a 16Mhz 68000 and a 10Mhz 68000 with
terminals. Both had 2 meg RAM, 40 Meg hard drives etc. The speed tests that
Kevin Pease ran were on the 16 Mhz Tomcat. The TC70 at the show was a working
prototype but because the OSK port was not finished we did not run it. The TC9
was a display prototype. Both were there to show that they were indeed real.
The TC9 was a completely different prototype from the one at Chicago. This one
is the preproduction model that will go in production in a few weeks. The TC70
is IN production now although there are still some small software details to be
done.

BTW have you gotten your MM1? I couldn't help but notice your many positive
comments about it here on the forum and your eager anticipation on getting it.
I am sure that it will live up to your expectations. The running demos on it at
the show were impressive.



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