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From: freed@aum.UUCP (Erik Freed)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: New Atari Toy Computer
Message-ID: <420@aum.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 11:08:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 11:08:44 1986
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> Say, toy stores everywhere are going to be carrying a new spiffy neato
> toy computer from atari. Its called the 520 ST or something. Can't wait
> till my local K-Mart gets them (for about three hundred dollars). Maybe
> I'll get a few of them and give them away to small children I know. Hope
> there aren't any toxic easily swallowable parts! Wasn't atari supposedly
> getting into the *real* computer market or was that some other company?
> Too bad about all the poor folks who payed full price (and defended their
> action so eloquently on the net). 
> 
> Gee I guess it was management that was responsible for Commodore getting
> the reputation of building toys. After all, now that the former management
> of commodore has moved to atari, behold, the reputation moved with them.
> And looky! Commodore is now building the machine of the 80's. Boo Hoo.

I just do not understand why people feel so strongly that they have to 
put down a little personal computer like the 520 ST. I am absolutely
incredulous that the USENET with articles on the most ethereal / complex
topics imaginable in the computer world, should also play host to these
inappropriate emotional outbursts. Would someone fill me in as to what
specifically about the Atari is so hideous (except that the price just dropped)
I am planning on buying one and want to avoid the horror of paying less
for a product of the DEVIL. (yes you heard right)
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                           Erik James Freed
			   Aurora Systems
			   San Francisco, CA
			   {dual,ptsfa}!aum!freed