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From: ljdickey@water.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 520STFM recommendation for Atari
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Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 10:06:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  2 10:06:16 1987
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Reply-To: ljdickey@water.UUCP (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1583@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (braner) writes:
>
>I don't think it's the fact that some people write games for the ST that
>gives it a game-machine image.  Lots of games are written for the Mac and
>the IBM!  It's that the brand name 'Atari' has historically been firmly
>attached to video games.

I think Moshe is right about this.  On at least two occasions, I have mentioned
Atari to friends when their kids were present.  The kids got all excited and
asked me if I got a 400 or an 800.  Since then, I have been somewhat on the
defensive.  On another occasion, it was the parents who know about the games
machines.  There is a long range view that could be taken here... when these
kids grow up, they may form a large market base for the company.   Remember
when big blue put its boxes into universities and colleges.  I think that
everybody understood that when the students graduated and found their place
in the business world, they would be positively inclined towards blue computers.

						Lee
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