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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: macintosh software on the atari 520/1040ST
Message-ID: <1425@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 21:05:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  8 21:05:35 1986
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Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA
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In article <373@drivax.UUCP> holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) writes:
>>
>> Yes, they could sell the cartridge without the ROMs, but where is
>> the purchaser going to buy them?
>>
> Go to Macintosh dealers.  Tell them you want to buy the ROMs.
> They'll sell them to you.  But Apple may start requiring dealers
> to ask for serial numbers, so you'd have to know someone with a
> Mac to get them.

Considering how upset Apple got when GEM looked too much like the Mac,
I don't think that they are likely to want their dealers to sell the
ROMs, and I don't think that any dealer who sells ROMs will be a
dealer for long.  I would expect them to start requiring dealers to
only sell complete Mac logic boards, and only when someone brings in
a complete Mac logic board, or has a very good excuse why he can't.

This of course doesn't mean that this product will never come to
market.  It just means that if you want it, you should buy it as
soon as possible, and get your ROMs while you can.
-- 
Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim