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From: rogers@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Bob Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Vapourware!!!
Message-ID: <1752@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 25 Nov 89 06:45:01 GMT
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In article <1817@atari.UUCP> kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
>Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>
>| Neil Harris was the "Director of Marketing Information" [...]
>| He promised the blitter upgrade, many times..  officially.
>
>Bob, I can't speak for Dave Meile, although I have the highest respect
>for him, but _I_ have been an Atari follower for many years, in the
>mags, online, and in news media.  I can not remember a single time that
>anyone from Atari officially announced availability of a BLiTTER
>upgrade for 520s or 1040s.  I _do_ remember that Neil and others
>mentioned that it was being worked on.  I guess you just heard what
>you wanted to.

When Neil Harris was an Atari employee he mentioned on GEnie that the blitter
upgrade would be available to 1040 owners.  He did not just say that it was
"being worked on".  Atari failed to deliver.  Atari's behavior is familiar to
those of us who owned Commodore computers during the Tramiels' tenure there.
Products were shown at trade shows but never delivered, the FCC was blamed for
late products, etc.  At least the Tramiels' Commodore sold millions of the 
products it did have, something that the Tramiels' Atari has not been able to
do.  The machine I thought would be the "poor man's Mac" turned out to be "the
rich man's Commodore 64."  I must say, though, that the hardware is much more
reliable that the C64's and it's a lot better for C hacking.
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Bob Rogers                    rogers@stpaul.ncr.com  or  rogers@pnet51.cts.com
NCR Comten, St. Paul, MN      GEnie: R.C.ROGERS