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Zislis thinks the TI market will remain firm for some time, noting, "What we're getting is a lot of people calling every day and then I talk to vendors who say there's lots of people coming in for TI products. My perception is it looks pretty good."
=Whither has the Phoenix Flown?=
Things are changing very quickly at Cor-Comp as it becomes apparent that the company will not be able to deliver its 99/64 computer to dealers this spring. In January company officials had said that demonstrator models of the TI-compatible machine would be at dealers' stores by early spring.
A new management team came on board in February and immediately began passing the word that production of the computer has been delayed.
A former Cor-Comp official indicated in early February that the 99/64, dubbed the Phoenix, "was sent back to R and D."
The new company officials are saying very little about the machine, except to express satisfaction in the interest being shown in the computer. Spokesperson Jacki Sagouspe indicated that the marketing of the machine has been delayed.
However, she said, the company's peripheral expansion box may be marketed this spring. The company also will market a disk drive controller card and an RS232 card for the box. The company also sells a 32K memory card.
It is not certain at this point whether the box will be physically compatible with TI-manufactured cards. Although company officials told the Compendium in early February that the box, with several cards, would retail for about $300, that may change before it actually reaches dealer shelves.
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