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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many of the 1,400 dealers who carry the new PCjr have yet to sell even their initial 25-machine allotments. "Inventory is beginning to pile up," says Alexander Stein, an analyst with Dataquest, a California research firm. Says one New York City dealer: "A Cabbage Patch doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Peanut Meets the Mac | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...current racist South African regime, and to any support of that regime through investment in companies that do business in South Africa. Any implication to the contrary is ludicrous. More specifically, the letter to The Crimson (SASC, March 15) signed by Henry Park and others is an outrageous patch work of misrepresentation and innuendo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Defense | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

Executives of the West Hartford, Conn., company had expected the Adam to be a hot seller, but quality defects have chilled sales and caused customers to return up to 30% of the computers. And while Coleco's Cabbage Patch Kids remain a huge hit, some analysts now believe that the firm will have to discontinue Adam in order to stem its losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: New Woes for Coleco | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...children. I don't believe in reincarnation, but you know how babies move uncoordinated? He never moved that way. When he danced, it was like he was an older person." Katherine talks about her life raising nine children as if she were taking a walk over a patch of ground for the thousandth time, familiar and at ease with every bump and flower. We talk for about 20 minutes while my cab waits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: He Hasn't Gone Crazy over Success | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...maiden name and a self-bestowed doctorate, "which came from the fact that I saved my father $25,000 by dropping out of Oxford," next plans a nonsense book. He is also working on a Broadway play for adults, and this year Coleco, purveyors from the Cabbage Patch, will offer a new line of Seuss dolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

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