For others, it's a signal that they'd better start looking for other pastures.
Tex.as Texas Instruments' decision to getout of the home computer markethave been met with varying reactionsfrom thfrd third party vendors.Nobody was really ready for it, butmost vendors interviewed by theCompendium have made plans forfuture actions, one way or another. Gene Harter, a general partner inNot-Polyoptics, reflects what he sayswas his firm's "mixed reaction" tothe TT oulloutTI pullout. "At first we were dismayed," hesays. "We knew the TI was the besthome computer you could get attwice the price. Even at $250 thatcomputet computer outclassed its competitionand it just wasn't fair when thatcomputer went away.''" Yet there is a bnght bright side.
"TI was our biggest competitor
and they've gone out of business,"
