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From: psurge@cs.utexas.edu (Troy Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How is Atari doing in Europe?
Message-ID: <1544@grit.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 91 03:40:51 GMT
References: <1991Jun14.010821.9903@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
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In article <1991Jun14.010821.9903@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> yegerleh@vivaldi.ecn.purdue.edu (James D Yegerlehner) writes:
>
>Dear ST-Netters,
>
>I am very much interested in how Atari is fairing over in Europe.
>I don't think Atari is making much of a splash over here (yet?)
>with the new STEs and TTs, but can any of you guys over in Europe
>say how the new machines are being received there?  Is Atari 
>maintaining the significant market share that it once had?
>
>Jim
>
>--

I am not from Europe, but I just spent 3 weeks there and I can tell you an
American's perspective of the European ST market:

If any of you thought the west coast was Atari-country (flashback...Atari's 
first ad campaign under the Trammiels) then you have obviously not been to
Germany.  I looked at one of the 3 Atari magazines at the newsstand in the 
train station of the former East Berlin and they advertised the Mega STE, the
Notepad (handwriting ST), CD ROM players, and many other Atari products that
we will probably never see in the States.  Walking down the street in West
Berlin showed that Atari was in most computer stores, and I passed at least
one store with a huge neon Atari symbol in the window.

In Denmark, I talked to a CS student there who told me that the ST was a very
popular choice there in Denmark.  I also saw Atari's in computer stores there.

Then, to top it all, I was watching a soccer game televised from Germany, and
there by one goal where the cameras got good shots of it was a huge "Atari
Computers" sign familiar to all of us. (Logo and all!)

In short, Atari is doing very well in Europe, as far as I could tell.
(The only Mac store I saw in my 3 week stay was in Copenhagen!)




                                Troy Carpenter
                        Department of Computer Sciences
                        THE University of Texas, Austin
                              psurge@cs.utexas.edu

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