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Much is riding on what happens between now and Christmas, when the industry does 40% of its annual business. Companies had sluggish sales this summer, and several firms, including Gavilan and Franklin, went bankrupt during the slump. Retailers, especially, are counting on a robust holiday selling season. Says Dyson: "They're discounting like crazy just to stay alive." In San Francisco, the price of a Mac has dropped to $1,695, and PCjrs are going for $745, more than 40% off their original list price...
Selling take-me-along machines is not without its risks, however. The market is littered with portables that never quite took off. In July, Convergent Technologies halted production on its Workslate computer, a $1,000 laptop with built-in financial-planning software. Gavilan Computers, which has introduced two different models aimed at traveling executives, is now scrambling for survival. Complains Convergent President Allen Michels: "The market for portable business computers just isn't there, at any price...
...marketplace is full of ailing companies. Gavilan Computer in Campbell raised $23.9 million in venture capital two years ago to help launch its first product, a 9-lb. lap-size computer, but was slow to develop an improved model. It has laid off 210 of its 280 workers, and is now looking for additional capital. Convergent Technologies has also stumbled over its portable. The Santa Clara firm introduced its lap-size WorkSlate a year ago to enthusiastic reviews. But the company could not make enough of these computers to satisfy the initial demand, and then ran into production snafus. After...
Before the battle, per that charming custom, past champions trooped through the ring, showing their beautifully squashed old faces. Beau Jack, Kid Gavilan, Jake LaMotta, Gene Fullmer, Carmen Basilic, Carlos Monzon. The last four are former middleweights, who must wonder about the state of the 160-lb. division...
...come a cropper-or, under the circumstances, anything but a copper. Brian Devlin (Rock Hudson) on The Devlin Connection (NBC, Saturdays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) is head of a huge culture complex in Los Angeles who does some investigating with his son on the side. As played by Robert Urich, Gavilan (NBC, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) is a crime-busting oceanographer more at ease in a wet suit than a trench coat. And the Tuckers (Tim Matheson, Catherine Ricks) on Tucker's Witch (CBS, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.S.T), although carrying P.I. credentials, have to rely for investigative inspiration...