Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Re: How Atari stock affects consumers Message-ID: Date: 26 Aug 90 21:34:42 GMT References: <1990Aug23.181723.19210@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Aug24.061358.28487@chinet.chi.il.us> <1990Aug24.234729.7504@sisd.kodak.com> <914@msdrl.UUCP> Lines: 23 [In article <914@msdrl.UUCP>, gaines@msdrl.UUCP (Michael Gains) writes ... ] > 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. Can't get their act together? (Snort.) Not a damned thing would happen. Nothing has happened in the last five years of not having their act together. Nothing would happen now. My ST is plugged into the power lines and the phone lines. It doesn't have an umbilical cord running back to Uncle Jack. I doubt that the roof is caving in at Atari Corp., but even if it did, the average Atari *owner* wouldn't feel a thing. Nobody depends on Atari Corp. for software, and except for the basic system unit (currently available for $250 on the used market) everything is available from multiple third-party vendors. The price of Atari stock is irrelevant. -- Steve Yelvington up at the lake in Minnesota steve@thelake.mn.org plains!umn-cs!steve