New Thinkpads on Monday

[Joshua Hosseinoff <hosseino@yu1.yu.edu>]

Today's Wall Street Journal says that IBM will announce all their new 
computer model types on Monday.  Apparently the PS/2 and Valuepoint will 
be discontinued and the computers will be called just "The IBM PC" 
with a 300 series and a 700 series (just like the notebooks).  The 300 
series will be the value brand with prices starting at about $1200.  The 
700 series will the high-end models.  All 700 series will be Pentiums.
The new Thinkpads will have some innovative features such as, built in 
CD-ROM drives, digital telephone-answering system, and an infrared device 
to beam files from one machine to another.
They also said that they will boost production of color screen Thinkpads 
by four times the level of the first half of 1994, but that probably 
still won't be enough.

Joshua Hosseinoff
hosseino@yu1.yu.edu