Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!neil
From: neil@atari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: New Atari Products Revisited
Message-ID: <699@atari.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 13:19:34 EST
Article-I.D.: atari.699
Posted: Wed Apr  8 13:19:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 08:32:02 EST
References: <175@osupyr.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp/Mktg
Lines: 40

In article <175@osupyr.UUCP>, akw@osupyr.UUCP (FarOff MicroDesigns) writes:

> 	When can we see a shipping date on the following promised 
> products:
> 
> 	* XEP-80, 80-column adapter for the 8-bit Ataris
> 	  (and will it have some software, and will it 
> 	   support the 400/800s?)
> 
> 	* SX212 3/12 Modem

Both due sometime in June.  Perhaps late May on the modem.

> 	* 3.5" disk drive

No word on a delivery date.

> 	  (and will we see SpartaDOS, DOS XL or another such
> 	   software support for said beast be packaged with it)

We are working on a DOS project.  Looks nice.

> 	* XE Game Machine (yuk)

June is the schedule on this.  Don't say yuk -- it is the best hope we have
for reopening the mass merchants as a distribution channel for 8-bit
products.

> and will we be seeing any of the following rumoured products:
> 
> 	* 8-bit mouse
> 
> 	* mouse-based desktop system

Probably never.  Who starts these rumors anyway?
-- 
--->Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation
UUCP: ...{hoptoad, lll-lcc, pyramid, imagen, sun}!atari!neil
BIX: neilharris / CIS: 70007,1135 / Delphi: NEILHARRIS / GENIE: NHARRIS
WELL: neil / Atari Corp. BBS 408-745-5308 / Usually the OFFICIAL Atari opinion