Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!rochester!kodak!sisd!rg 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) Message-ID: <1990Jul26.235749.11235@sisd.kodak.com> Date: 26 Jul 90 23:57:49 GMT References: <13836@shlump.nac.dec.com> <32058@cup.portal.com> <1990Jul25.195625.18597@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Sender: news@sisd.kodak.com Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester NY Lines: 63 In article <1990Jul25.195625.18597@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> pietrzak@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (John Pietrzak) 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... >> > >Convince this poor inquisitive fellow that Atari computers are worthless... > >Ignore the possibility that any local dealer exists near this person (I have >three near me)... Don't even mention the availabilty of mail order... I have one, half-heartedly, mail order is rapidly decreasing. FACT: call em' >Forget the many useful programs already available for desktop publishing, >programming, word processing... Go ahead and lump all the current software >publishers in the ST market into the "minor company" category... I can think of ONE good WP (the PC? 20+), as for DTP, well, I think Ready Set Go (whome by the way purged the ST version early in development) makes most any I've encountered look silly. >Brainwash him with tales of vaporous products never seeing the light of day... >Ignore the fact that his original query dealt with the 1040 ST, a solid >product for several years, being replaced now with the non-vapor STE line... Solid? Depends, I dont drop computers. Vaporous products? We all know that tale all to well thank you. >Don't admit the possibility that anyone currently living in the continental >United States has any remote interest in the ST (including yourself, writing >that dispassionate, disinterested posting)... You hit it exact... Remote. Increasingly so. >Absolutely DO mention that Atari the corporation has no credibility left. >However, attribute this opinion to the entire computer market, rather >than being your own feelings. How true. I developed on the ST from day one. My mis-fortune. And, literally mean fortune. Least $$$ I've ever made w/ a machine, includin' the TRS-80 model 1. Bad software Maybe? No, try Deskcart! (rated as the best add on product for the ST on multiple occasions in multiple publications). Sad indeed.. I wont say what I made on Deskcart!, it's embaressin'. Nuff' to say a pal wrote a text editor (2nd program he EVER wrote) on a PC clone at made more shareware than I did commercially. (sad!). The credibility is gone (in my mind and computerdom). Another program I wrote, PRINT-IT! never went to market, and, in alpha/beta testing was on pirate BBS's. I'm impressed! I made $0.00 on that one, as, after this happened it was decided that an estimated 40-50% of ST users had it already. This is where I DROPPED the ST (I still have my machine though, could'nt get nuff' $$$ sellin' it). The bottom line of the whole mish-mosh is should we again buy atari? I sure won't, The PC's are more powerful/affordable/supportable/expandable installable/workable/useable/available/fixable/likeable. -- Jeff Gortatowsky {seismo,allegra}!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg Eastman Kodak Company These comments are mine alone and not Eastman Kodak's. How's that for a simple and complete disclaimer?