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From: hmm@laura.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Sound Familiar (Tramiel Inc.)
Message-ID: <118@laura.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 06:38:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: laura.118
Posted: Fri Oct  2 06:38:10 1987
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Reply-To: hmm@unido.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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In article <2265@druhi.ATT.COM> med@druhi.ATT.COM (DrapalME) writes:
... irrelevant stuff ...
>*** FLAME ON *** (maybe I should have done this a few lines sooner..)
>
>  Our ST club, of which I happen to be the current president (oh well,
>some of us just have no common sense...) had an Atari show here in Denver
>just after the infamous PC announcement --- Did we see it??? No, because it
>is a figment of "seven or eight rather over-worked software engineers"
>(sorry Landon, but those are your words, not mine).  When we asked Neil where
>it was, we got something like 'there is a show in Europe, and it is more
>important that it was there'. (e.g. we only have one, and it doesn't really
>work, and we can hide that fact at a European show much easier than we
>could here at a computer fair where people could actually put their hands
>on it - Yuk!).
Ok, cool down and get your facts straight !  I don't know if there
was only one of these PC clones in existence, but it was certainly
at the Hannover Fair, and it was for real.  Not that I especially
like MS-DOS (Yuck !) or the way product announcements are made at Atari...
But this computer show was definitely a bit bigger than your local
ST-Club show...  And people could actually put their hands on that
machine there !  Less american chauvinism and more real information
would serve you a bit better :-)

On the other hand, I definitely would like Atari to stop talking about /
developing the stupid PC (and other stupid projects) and build a
decent machine on which I can run my favorite OS...

	Hans-Martin
D