Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU!cmm1 From: cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Time for a New Computer: Should it be an Atari ST? Message-ID: Date: 26 Jul 90 14:08:28 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 80 Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Time for a New Computer: Should it be an Atari ST? Summary: Expires: References: <13836@shlump.nac.dec.com> <32058@cup.portal.com> <1990Jul25.185054.1847@chinet.chi.il.us> Sender: Reply-To: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Columbia University Keywords: Dealers numbers In article <1990Jul25.185054.1847@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes: >In article <32058@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes: >>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.. >> >Ok, I'm not sure I like being called an Atari cheerleader, but I still think >the Atari ST is a decent choice for a home computer. And that's based very >firmly on what can be bought today. NO allowances for what's promised. But >that's not the main issue here. > >I live in the Chicago area. We have, as Atari dealers, Computer Cellar, two >branches of Software Plus, a couple of 'sorta' atari dealers (Mars Merchandising >and Computer Grove) and one more I never remember the name of. A game store, >'Gamers Paradise' can special order Atari Stuff. At least 4 other operations- >Apple Annie (I kid you not), Kolputer Systems, F&D and(please forgive me if >you're reading this, Gerry--I forget the name of your business) handle Atari >software and accessories. And I am absolutely certain this list isn't >complete. Makes me wonder if Atari dealers are all THAT scarce. Well, I live in the largest city in these here United States. :-) As far as I can tell, ST software is significantly harder to find now in NYC than it was when I bought my ST a few years ago. I can only think of one or two places that have any decent selection of titles. The exception is, of course, MIDI software. Several large music stores have STs displayed and have a decent amount of MIDI titles in stock. The only seller of ST's that comes to mind other than the music stores is J&R Music World, a big mail order outfit with a showroom near Wall St. However, the ST's on display have been broken for ages. I don't think I've seen them turned on in months and I don't ever recall seeing mice attached so that a customer could try it out. Not that it matters, since they are in a rather dark corner behind a brighly lit and active Amiga display. If this is the kind of marketing we can look forward to in a major city like New York....draw your own conclusions. > >Now it happens that I know megabyte (the fella who asked the original question). >He lives in the DC area. Anyone read 'Current Notes'? I don't think he'll >be hurting for local support if he picks an ST. Yep, I've heard there is a very active user group base in that area and a few stores that deal in ST wares as well. > > Steve J. Cheers, Chris p.s. Stock doom to come soon...as per Greg Lindahl's request. :-) ------------------------------+--------------------------- Chris Mauritz |Donde hay una cerveza cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu |hay un plan. (c)All rights reserved. | Send flames to /dev/null |El Guerrero Aereo es el rey! ------------------------------+---------------------------