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...years driving around California looking for the perfect place to grow Pinot Noir grapes. He finally found grape pay dirt, but nowhere near the famed Napa Valley. Instead it was 135 miles south, on a limestone-rich mountainside east of Monterey. Jensen planned to plant vines in the Gavilan Mountains at 2,200 ft. above sea level, making his future vineyard among the highest, and the coldest, in California. Around that same time, another young winemaker, Ken Brown, was turning down job offers in Napa to head even farther south, to the Santa Maria Valley near Santa Barbara. "People thought...
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Some computer companies that tried to rush Mother Nature have ended up filing for bankruptcy or merging with other firms. Among the best-known casualties: VisiCorp, Osborne and Gavilan. Even mighty IBM is not immune to the vaporware syndrome. Two years ago the company fell so far behind schedule with the PCjr that it was forced to postpone delivery of its eagerly awaited home computer until after the Christmas sales rush. Apple, meanwhile, has still not delivered the large disk drive that was to have been the centerpiece of the Macintosh Office announced with great hoopla early in 1985. According...
...survival. Future Computing, a Dallas-based market research firm, says that in the past two years the number of personal computer manufacturers has shriveled from more than 200 to about 150. Some companies, including Mattel and Timex, have simply dropped their home computer lines, but several smaller firms like Gavilan Computer of Campbell, Calif., and Beehive International of Salt Lake City, have filed for bankruptcy. Last year 570 of 3,800 computer retailers in the U.S. closed their doors or were taken over by large chains. Even the number of computer magazines has tumbled from some...
...some ways, people with machines orphaned by IBM are better off than those who bought from firms that filed for bankruptcy (such as Franklin, Gavilan, Osborne and Victor) or simply quit the computer field (Coleco, Mattel, Timex). IBM's higher-priced models are still enormously successful, which ensures a steady stream of IBM compatible software, some of which will run on the PCjr. Moreover, the giant company has promised to continue to provide parts and service "as long as the product is around...