[AT] OT - computer advice

Dan Glass dglass at numail.org
Thu Aug 7 08:33:20 PDT 2014


I seem to remember a computer company by the name of Franklin that 
pushed business computers.  Most small businesses that got a business 
computer at that time got Franklins.  They must have gone out of business.
On 8/7/2014 10:21 AM, Steve W. wrote:
> David Bruce wrote:
>> My experience differs - might be the local store people but in
>> Spartanburg, SC there was strong business support. Large business no as
>> that was locked up by IBM mainframe people but with small/medium
>> business it was good. TRS MII and TRS MII.
>> The Coco was a consumer product totally.
>>
>> David
>> NW NC
>>
> Most likely location. Being in NY and with IBM being just "down the
> road" none of the stores pushed business sales. We would sell a few to
> smaller places that couldn't afford big blue or wanted "local" support.
>
>




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