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From: billw@wolf.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Good ole objective (sic) ST owners
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Date: Sun, 3-May-87 00:25:30 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  3 00:25:30 1987
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Atari owners, some of them anyway, ARE fanatic and blind. You, Jeff, are a
perfect example.

How can you expect the ST, which is, after all, the doing of someone who had
no involvement at all with the older computers, to be the same as your beloved
8-bit Atari machines?

For that matter, why would you want to?

I am simply heartbroken that the ST does not make an obnoxious beeping sound
whenever it accesses the disk.

The graphics are lousy, the sound is worse.

They are unbelievably overpriced.

Yes, I would trade my 1040ST for a slow and noisy Atari 400 anyday. I like
the membrane keyboard, ya know.

Get real. The ST makes the 8-bit machines look like a ten-cent prop from an
old science fiction movie. Sure, it has its faults, but so does any computer
you could buy. I have gotten errors on the Amiga for some of the dumbest
imaginable reasons. Sure, Atari may not have done the smartest thing when 
they put TOS in ROM. But that doesn't make them the first company to do such
a thing.

And I LIKE having such a patheticly small amount of free space on each disk.

Why do you scream for people to reply to you via email, Jeff? Are you afraid
people might find out how unpopular you are?

There is such a thing, you know, as a classified ad. Or even an article posted
to misc.forsale. Then you could buy yourself an old Atari, settle back into
your crib, and happily drool on the keyboard until you attain some level of
maturity.

Oh dear, I am starting to write like obnoxio.
-- 
Bill Wisner
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