Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!noao!amethyst!organpipe!hercules.as.arizona.edu!dkoski From: dkoski@hercules.as.arizona.edu (David Koski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Just gripin'... Message-ID: <568@organpipe.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 90 23:03:05 GMT References: <249@stbimbo.UUCP> Sender: news@organpipe.UUCP Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Lines: 34 In article mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Paul Greelish) writes: >The ST is dying. If you want virtually anything for it, you'll have to >mail order it. Living in a big city does help, however. J&R Music World no, I don't think it ever really had life, kinda like a zombie. >Get a Mac, not an IBM. IBMs are for corporate fascists, and besides, >Macs are better (ease of use, etc.) Apple isn't about to fade into the How about a NeXTstation? >I dunno, Atari's new models aren't too impressive to me, >price/performance wise... they may buy the farm for good this time. > >I'm getting a Mac IIsi if my parents can/will help me afford it >(although it's pretty cheap here with student discounts, $3000 is still >a lot of money) or a Spectre GCR if that's all I can afford. Well a NeXTstation is about $3000 with a student discount... Is any one else that currently has an ST thinking about a next? I am and I hope others are too. BTW I saw a nextstation here at the campus bookstore and it was awsome! Speed that was unbelievable, a real OS, and nice looking windows etc. (unlike some other machines that we all know) > >|\ /| >| \/ | ike Greelish >Carnegie-Mellon U. undergrad >quote: "When you're bored, everything is your business." --Me >stupid disclaimer: My opinions are dictated to me by a 23 year old >telepathic Chilean aardvark living in my closet. David Koski