Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!csus.edu!ucdavis!csusac!csuchico.edu!ekrimen From: ekrimen@csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: The TT is finally there! Keywords: TT Message-ID: <1990Sep14.004829.18663@ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: 14 Sep 90 00:48:29 GMT References: <1898@ztivax.UUCP> <1990Sep12.190508.3153@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Sep13.172935.1342@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1990Sep13.185245.15406@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (USENET) Reply-To: ekrimen@cscihp.UUCP (Ed Krimen) Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 35 Chris Mauritz writes: - Also, one other observation...Any other company who had a new - product like this on store shelves would be promoting the damn - thing. Am I to gather that I have to hear 2nd or 3rd hand reports - on Usenet to know that the machine is for sale at stores in Europe?? - Apple,IBM,SUN, usually has a big media splash to - announce new products like this so that people become aware of that - new product. Actually, they usually do this BEFORE the product is - available. You criticize Atari for annoucing a product early. Above, you criticize them for not annoucing a product early. "Damned if you do, damned if you don't." Give them a break. Actually, you could blow your top for as long as you want; no one's going to listen to you. Go to your room and throw a tandrum. - How does Atari Corp. expect to sell these things if only a handful - of net.hackers even knows of its existence? Atari has said in press releases that the TT will be shown at the November COMDEX. Why is it that the bashers never see this material? This is a paragraph from the San Francisco Chronicle's Business section, June 21, 1990: "Atari has shipped about 500 of the TT computers to software makers, so they can have their applications software ready when the company introduces the machine at the COMDEX computer show in Las Vegas next November." I've seen references like this in USA Today and the San Francisco Examiner. You read the newspaper, don't you? - This is a real world (TM) question that begs for an answer. Come back from Never-Neverland (this will Never happen, that will Never happen) in a couple of months. When you come back, you'll have your answer.