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From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Sound Familiar (Tramiel Inc.)
Message-ID: <540@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 03:53:07 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  2 03:53:07 1987
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Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Keywords: vapourware

In article <2265@druhi.ATT.COM> med@druhi.ATT.COM (DrapalME) writes:
>Atari announced their PC to eclipse the
>announcement of the Amstrad PC, and amazingly enough, no one has seen it
>since.  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!).

Currently, in Basel, Switzerland, there are two objects which are claimed
to be Atari PCs, running demo programs (complete with a notice to the
effect that "die computermachines sind nicht fur gefingerpoken").
There is also a claim that both the new TOS ROMS (German version)
and the blitter can be delivered.
Like you, I believe only in what I can touch and buy from Atari.
I pass this information for what it is worth.
(BTW, the show at which they are being demonstrated is quite big by
Swiss standards, but whether it can be called more important than an
equivalent US show is questionable)