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From: jons@islenet.UUCP (Jonathan Spangler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Atari and Dealer relations.
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Date: Fri, 22-Aug-86 19:26:05 EDT
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In article <860819014936.00000C3F.BDET.MA@UMass> Silver@UMass.BITNET (I forgot your name already.) writes:
>...I work for this Atari Dealer. And we seem to have some sort
>of problem in getting ANY Atari hardware in. 
>... On a daily basis we lose sales to mail order, cause people
>cannot afford to wait for Atari. We have been waiting for "any day now"
>for about 2 months now. Sigh...
>... "We carry all these, plus the ST which is more powerfull
>than any IBM machine, but we dunno when we will get one. We DO have
>the IBM-Compatibles in stock, though" When people go computer shopping
>they like to get what they buy NOW, and not wait for some non-announced
>date. 
>
>Silver,
>SILVER%UMASS.BITNET

I will have to agree here, as we are also a dealer here for
Atari ST's and compatibles. 
 
Some answers would be GREATLY appreciated, as the number of calls 
I've gotten recently on the 1040ST has doubled and tripled
because of the advent of wonderful software like Music Studio, 
the Michtron software, OSS Personal Pascal and magazines like "STart"
by Antic and "Atari ST Disk & Magazine" by Compute (wonderful
creative name for a magazine, eh?)

Anyway, WE NEED ANSWERS!!!! Please, Neil, if you can help us, please
do.               

As Silver said, we are losing sales to PClones because people can SEE
the hardware.

I have two basic questions:

1) Availability of hard disks (20 meg)

2) When is the IBM emulator due. (I need a realistic date -- it is
   totally unfair to lead people on if the product is 6 months
   away. If it will be 6 months, for Christ sake, SAY SO!)

I hope Atari understands this as positive enthusiasm for a
spectacular product and not as something negative. 

PEOPLE WANT TO BUY ATARI'S, I TELL YOU! 

I WANT TO SELL THEM!

Aloha from Waikiki,

Jonathan Spangler
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