Display article   Subject:  Notebooks and Larger Hard Drives
   04/30/97   18:34:56


NOTEBOOKS AND LARGER HARD DRIVES

Everyone is talking about it -- the newly announced BRANDX
Notebook computer with a 60 megabyte hard disk drive!!  The
advertisements are all over the place enticing you to ask for and
demand a 60 megabyte hard drive.

Unfortunately, the actual number of notebook computers with a 60
MB hard drive that are being delivered is relatively small.  Some
manufacturers have resorted to shipping with a 20 MB drive and
including a coupon for a 40 MB or 60 MB upgrade WHEN AVAILABLE.
Others are simply continuing to advertise and doing their best to
get small quantities out to their dealers.

The buyers at Radio Shack are not deaf to demands for a larger
hard drive in the Tandy notebook line.  We understand that you
are asking for them in our stores, but we also realize that one
of the reasons you continue to ask you is that you are simply
having trouble finding any dealer that has a 60 MB unit in stock
to sell.

The trouble with the supply of these large hard drives is that
there have been very bad problems with their reliability -- in
some cases they simply do not work.  And although other
manufacturers continue to try to supply these drives, Radio Shack
would rather wait for a quality product.

So please be patient.  Radio Shack will move to the larger hard
drives when the manufacturers can produce them with consistently
good quality and quantity.
