Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!ria!uwovax!4224_5132
From: 4224_5132@uwovax.uwo.ca (Andrew Semple)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT vs 386 box and flames
Message-ID: <3978.2544351b@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 24 Oct 89 14:10:34 GMT
References: <3962.2541c37a@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1449@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
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In article <1449@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas) writes:> 
> 
> Sad, to say, seeing a machine at a show doesn't mean it's going to be
> purchasable in the near future!  The Atari CD-ROM drive was not only
> shown in 1987, it made the front cover of the UK's leading personal
> computer magazine (Personal Computer World, December 1987 - I kept
> the review to chuckle over every few months).  The CD-ROM drive, to
> my knowledge, is still not being sold in the UK - certainly I've not
> seen any adverts for it in any ST magazine.  (I did hear that some
> were on sale in Germany, but I can't confirm that.  Anyone?)
>  
  I entirely agree.  But one would have to admit that there is a big 
difference in money spent between a CD-ROM or a graphics package, than
the money spent on a new line of computer (well, enhancement at least).
If a company is going to sink a couple years and a couple million dollars
into developing a computer they think the market wants, why would you
then think someone inside would sabotage it's release.  This is the way 
everyone talked before the release of the Mega line (not so much the ST).
No one thought Atari had the balls to release a computer that might, even
in the littlest way, be expandable.  I'm sure there are HUNDREDS of ideas,
some of them good I bet, that get left behind every year.  The TT is not
one of them.
> 
> I managed to crash (= freeze) the TT on show by going into low-res,
> opening the 'about..' dialog box to see the 'rainbow' effect and
> moving the mouse.  Hope that one gets fixed by release time!
>  
  Awsome...

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