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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Programming Books for the Atari ST
Summary: Two answers; 1 snotty, but both helpful
Keywords: Motorola Thompson
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.034818.14525@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Sep 90 03:48:18 GMT
References: <10541@life.ai.mit.edu> <1990Sep11.004259.2788@chinet.chi.il.us> <10563@life.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <10563@life.ai.mit.edu> entropy@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (enthalpy) writes:
>In article <1990Sep11.004259.2788@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
>
>   whatever the latest edition is.  Motorola manuals do sometimes show up in
>   bookstores, but the standard way to get them is to start calling Motorola
>   offices, describing what you need a manual for, until someone decides to send
>   you one.  It tends to be fairly pleasant, because this is pretty routine to
>   them and they regard it as part of maintaining good customer relations.
>
>Uh, right, but where do I find one of these Motorola offices?

Please pardon me for giving the snotty answer first, because it can be incred-
ibly useful: You find ANY major company's phone number in the Thompson Register
(It's a set of about 15 big green books in the reference section of a lot of
libraries, and in many purchasing offices).

Now for the nice answer: Motorola has a headquarters number of (708)397-5000.
One number for the tech people is (708)576-7000.  Those are Illinois 
numbers.  The home of the 68000 is in Texas somewhere.  Again, good general
advice is that any BIG company will have a number in any big city phone
book.  If I didn't want to walk through from the main corporate number, and
the 576 number wasn't local (it IS local for me.  I'm sure it isn't the final
number in a game of 'phone tag, but it's a good start for me), I'd check the
Dallas and Houston phone books.
                                      Steve J.