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From: jamesp@dadla.UUCP (Jim Perkins)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Atari 520ST & the K-Mart antics
Message-ID: <372@dadla.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 19:58:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: dadla.372
Posted: Sat Aug 24 19:58:40 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Aug-85 01:48:37 EDT
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Reply-To: jamesp@dadla.UUCP (Jim Perkins)
Organization: Joe Zit's House of Creative Acne Treatment
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Keywords: Amiga, Atari, ST, Commod
Summary: 

[Go ahead, EAT me, MAKE MY DAY]

I visited a local computer store earlier today, and lo and behold, there was
an Atari 520ST showing beautiful color images on the monitor.  The price of a
system with drive and monochrome monitor is $799, and $999 for a color monitor
system.  I talked with the salesman there concerning the infamous "K-Mart"
antics of Commodore and Atari (In short, after selling computers to
dealers for ~$250 apiece, they signed contracts with K-Mart and sold them to
K-Mart distributors at only ~$130, leaving the dealers with expensive,
unsellable machines).  I asked him, how come so many dealers are ready to
carry the Amiga and the ST?  He told me that for the 520ST, Atari had to
sign an agreement not to undercut the dealers as they had previously, and the
dealers were all required to sell the computers for NO LESS than $799
monochrome and $999 color.  He told me that the $799/$999 minimum is enforced
everywhere in the world, so if anyone out there in net.land is hoping to see a
lower price somewhere, it won't happen.

The Atari is absolutely lovely, and at a lovely price.  My choice between
Atari and Amiga will probably be the Atari, because I'm a poor student, unable
to invest in an even fancier Amiga (*sigh*), but I think that the Atari will
sell better for this reason -- it has enough bells and whistles to keep almost
anyone happy!

There are rumors floating around about CD-ROMS for the Amiga and ST.  Does
anyone else know about these things?  Do you think we will see "UN*X on a
disk" for the ST or Amiga?  So interesting...

I am wondering if TOS, the Atari Operating System, will become popular enough to
have good applications roll along for it.  At any rate, the games should be
spectacular!
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