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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: What of ATW? (was Re: Atari TT 030 Launched!)
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Date: 16 Jun 90 06:01:48 GMT
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Chad Leigh writes:
>For the record I read in a high end graphics oriented
>magazine *last* year that Atari had already installed
>more than 400 of the machines.  With a specialty machine
>like the ATW that is a significant number.

Well, for the record, I don't believe *ANY* of the numbers I see "published".
 
Atari Corp told us all that they had 70,000 Lynxes to sell over the last
Christmas season... that turned out to be a bald-faced, outright lie...
at their stockholders' meeting, the true figure of 30,000 was revealed.
 
I tend to believe reports from "real people" who actually have machines
like the ATW in their hands.  They have a lot less to gain by lying about
things like "installed numbers"...
 

...and like I said, so far, on all of UseNet, Bitnet, CompuServe, etc, etc,
only three people have mentioned having an ATW.  If there were significant
numbers, you'd think we'd have heard about a *few* more...
 
At any rate, we're not talking about "super-cooled Crays"... it sure seems
to me that for such a fantastic, world-shaking advancement in the art of
computer science as Atari want us to believe the ABAQ, er.. ATW is,
an installed base of 400 machines *worldwide* is pretty poor...
 
BobR