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From: leavens@atari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Atari:  We'd like to hear from you.
Message-ID: <682@atari.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 14:11:38 EST
Article-I.D.: atari.682
Posted: Fri Mar 20 14:11:38 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 22:13:37 EST
References: <112@osupyr.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <112@osupyr.UUCP>, akw@osupyr.UUCP (FarOff MicroDesigns) says:
> 
> New products:
> 
> The XEP-80:
> 
> 	What is the expected date of shipment on this?  We heard about
> this device nearly a year ago but no word from Atari.  It's too bad that
> the "old" Atari didn't put some sort of 80-column mode in the XLs (or the
> "new" Atari in the XEs) when they first came out.

   Well, the XEP80 is much closer now, we are hopefully going into production
on it sometime next month.

> SX-212:
> 
> 	Shame, Atari.  A modem.  It didn't even take, oh, 6 months after the
> XM301 was introduced that it hit market.  It wasn't much, but it was small,
> cheap and quite fun to use.  Why is it taking so long to get a modem to 
> market?  This, however, is not such a point since there are so many 
> other modems to choose from.

   It took a bit longer than that for the XM301 to hit the market.  The
SX212 is a much more sophisticated modem, and hence is taking longer to do.
BUt it should be coming reasonably soon now.

  -- 
--alex @ Atari				  {sun,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer
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