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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Time for a New Computer: Should it be an Atari ST?
Message-ID: <32058@cup.portal.com>
Date: 25 Jul 90 07:29:10 GMT
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Wow... Atari Cheerleaders to the rescue...!
 
Convince this poor slob to spend his money on the Atari Myth...
 
Gloss over the fact that there are fewer than 50 active Atari dealers
in the entire U.S.of A...  so he can forget local support unless he's
lucky enough to live near one of the surviving Atari dealers..
 
Smokescreen the fact that most of the large software companies have abandoned
the Atari market as not being worth their effort any longer, due to the games
Atari Corp has played with them...
 
Vaporize him with mythical tales of the wonderful products Atari is going
to bring out *someday* ...   deflect him from buying truly useful computer
systems *TODAY* with lots of vaportales of Atari products to come...
 
Neglect to tell him that he better learn German as a second language if he
buys into the Atari market, since there's little support for Atari here in
the US...  
 
Forget to mention that Atari Corp has NO credibility left in the "big picture
of the computer marketplace, whether "high powered" computing or "game
machine" entertainment value...
 
Yeah...  "ATARI RAH RAH"...  that's the spirit...!
 
BobR