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...machine is the only one of its size that accepts standard 3.5-in. diskettes, which will enable users to transfer files from laptop to desktop in a snap. "This one is easy to sell. It is the Mercedes of computers," said Jim Johnston, a salesman at Atlanta's PC Mart...
...basic version of the LTE retails for $2,999. A more powerful model offers 40 megabytes of hard-disk memory for $4,999. Even at those prices, the LTE will be a formidable competitor, according to industry analysts. Boasts Compaq spokesman John Sweney: "It's a full-function PC. It gets everything into that same size without any of the compromises that other manufacturers had to make." Compaq is aiming at a hot new market: laptop sales are expected to grow from 834,000 units this year to 2 million annually...
...sales are expanding only about 5% annually, less than half the rate of a few years ago. Says Rod Canion, president of Houston-based Compaq: "The rules are changing, and it's very difficult for the big-computer makers to accept." At the other end of the spectrum, some PC makers are getting hit with a different problem: a glut of machines. Says Michael Dell, who heads an Austin-based PC maker that bears his name: "There are no more places on the shelf for another computer. There are more than you'd ever want to name...
...moment are failing to fill users' needs. They believe the expansion during the early and mid-1980s was based largely on the proliferation of such breakthrough products as the Apple II personal computer (1977); WordStar, the wordprocessing program (1979); VisiCalc, an electronic accounting ledger or spreadsheet (1979); the IBM PC (1981); Apple's Macintosh, with its advanced graphics capability (1984); and desktop- publishing gear like Aldus PageMaker...
...PC Plagues...