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Micropendium Volume 1 Number 4

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REACTIONS TO PULLOUT
Mary Jane Burger, an owner of RAM Enterprises (in this case, RAM stands for Richard And Mary) in Vermilion, Ohio, says that initially "we definitely felt concerned, but we took a wait-and-see attitude and were hopeful someone would pick up and continue the TI or at least the accessories and so forth."
Now, she says, "I know that we'redefinitely encouraged.''" She says that "Cor-Comp and othersare coming out with peripherals. Thisis a very hopeful sign. We felt aresponsiblity responsibility to our own customersand a concern that we couldn't getsoftware. That seems a little betternow.''" Craig Reitan, president of UnisourceElectronics, headquartered inLubbock, Texas, says,' '"We 􀂊d had mixedreactions. Almost all our business isTI. We have several phases: a coupleof stores and mail order." He says that "after the intial panic"they realized that two million TI computerswere out there. "It's an opportunityfor a mail-order business likeus." He says Unisource is in the processof doing "a brand-new catalog with thethings available, things being phasedout and things available in the future.''" Unisource markets more than 1,000products for the TI, he notes. The pullout means that "we have towork harder," he notes. "We're having third-party authorswork on software alternatives," hesays. ''Important pieces of softwarewe'll manufacture ourselves, if wehave to, although that's a businesswe'd rather not be in." 
Noting that TI stopped shipping
software at the end of March, Reitan

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