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The disk drive controller card willaccept up to four double-sided, quaddensityquad-density drives, Webb said. Planned for the system are plug-incards for CP/M, Logo and Pascal. Other standard features, Webbsays, are a built-in light pen, graphicscode generator and music code

Cor-Comp is setting up its own distributionnetwork, Webb says,eschewing the major chains that TIused. "We don't expect to use anymass merchandising yet, or probablyin the future," he says. Another Cor-Comp official indicatedthat the company has alreadyturned down bids by such companiesas Sears to distribute the machine. A number of mail-order housesthat currently stock Cor-Comp'sother hardware products, including a32K memory expansion card andRS232 card for the Tl99/4A, expect tosell the new computer when it hits themarket. Among these are Ul)isourceUnisource Electronics of Lubbock, Texas, andTenex Computer Marketing Systemsof South Bend, Indiana. Neither hadreceived any information from CorCompabout the Phoenix by lateDecember. The International 99 Users Groupof Bethany, Oklahoma, is said tohave one of the machines and is supposedto be in the process of testing it.However, Charles LaFara, presidentof the IUG, declined to commentwhen asked about the Phoenix.