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He also refers to "rumors that surrogateTlTI's" we be manufactured. "We'll serve the TI market as longas there is a TI market, whether that'stwo years or 20 years," he says. "Untilthe last customer rings our bell andsays 'We don't want to buy anything,'we'll be here." I'Tm m going to hang in as long as peoplewant to buy things," echoes Smith."When it dwindles down, I'll stop carryingTI." DeMars predicts. "I expect that theTI will be back on the market under anew name-that somebody else willmake it." Ficklin says simply, '·1 "I don't knowright now.··" He says that Computer Shows,whose "main thrust is educational"has expanded into some other lines ofcomputers. "I expect some of the titles peopleare looking for are going to disappear,"Mccutcheon McCutcheon says of futuresoftware sales. "There'll be somethird-party replacements but notexactly the same. We'll lose some thatare popular but not popular enough fora third party to pick up the rights to.''"  "I definitely feel there is a future forhome computers and it is a strongfuture." Burger says, "and though I'mnot sure which direction we want totake I'm sure there will be a successfulfuture out there." ==THE Tl TI MARKET==