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From: rg@sisd.kodak.com (Rich Gortatowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Time for a New Computer: Should it be an Atari ST? (long)
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Date: 27 Jul 90 00:09:36 GMT
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In article <32102@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>John Pietrzak finishes with:
>>Yeah... "Atari BOO HISS"... That's the productive way to spend the day!
> 
>Nope... a productive day is writing a hintbook on my Atari ST which will
>be sold to the uncounted millions of IBM and Mac computer owners..
> 
>It's not their fault they bought the wrong computer system, but Atari Corp
>didn't a goddammed thing to help them know the error of their ways, but
>since they're stuck with inferior systems, we Atari owners need to help
>them in any way we can...
> 
>Do *YOU* feel comfortable lying to someone, and telling them that everything
>in the Atari universe is just rosy...?
> 

Lets all face it. Knowone likes to admit, "I made a bad purchase".
I show you McPeople in countless numbers that can almost be considered a
religion. Atari owners are like this. PC owners just dont care, while we're
argue'n, their using their computers for something useful. Inferior
as stated above, is a poor choice of wording, since if it does the job
for the purchaser its not inferior. As for the atari universe, I beleive
I've hit the nail on the head. Think about it, the atari ST was a SUPER!
buy in its day. The Lynx makes the Lameboy Nintendo look silly. Atari
does grandly in europe. Put two and two together. Maybe? Atari US does NOT!
want to make money. Or, maybe they want to write off losses? Or maybe it's
the parent organization of atari UK/Canada and cant let the US parent
go belly up (ie: we'll goat consumers into purchasers, or worse yet, 
promise OLD atari users items never intended to get to them).
After all.... If one market does well, another should at worst do
moderately (at least in the computer area). Think about it a bit will ya'll.



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Jeff Gortatowsky       {seismo,allegra}!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg
Eastman Kodak Company  
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