Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!uunet!msdrl!gaines From: gaines@msdrl.UUCP (Michael Gains) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: How Atari stock affects consumers Message-ID: <914@msdrl.UUCP> Date: 26 Aug 90 04:27:07 GMT References: <1990Aug23.181723.19210@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Aug24.061358.28487@chinet.chi.il.us> <1990Aug24.234729.7504@sisd.kodak.com> Reply-To: gaines@msdrl.UUCP (Michael Gains) Organization: Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ Lines: 18 Well, here's the deal. Three months ago there wasn't a bigger Atari fanatic than myself...that is until their stock dropped from 14 to 5. Reality kicked in and I began to see that things were going from bad to worse. Who cares about the Lynx and the Hotz box? I dumped my Atari and bought another system (whose name shall be nameles...but close to an Atari system). At least now I don't have to worry about the company folding in the near future since it's one of the top computer companies in America. Newsweek did a graph of the amount of personal computers on the market. Atari wasn't even in the top 10. Now...people say that Atari is good for them. Fine. But what happens when they fold? They're down to 2 5/8. Quite a drop from last year's 14.Atari STs may be good for you now....but think about what may come of them (and you) if they can't get their act together. Everyone's feeling the crunch from the Mid East, but in Atari's case, they never had anything to fall back on. Michael E. Gaines Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories (201)594-5093 "Here, look, there's a semicolon after your 'for' loop..." #include