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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari 030 box (giggle)
Message-ID: <107@obie.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 05:20:36 GMT
References: <679UD140469@NDSUVM1> <22782@bbn.COM> <943@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
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Summary: Nobody's purchasing office buys Ataris?  WRONG!

In article <943@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>, singer@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Matthew R. Singer) writes:
> I'm not sure anyone in the technical market could get their purchasing
> departments to buy Atari.

WRONGO!  How about the USAF Air Logistics Command?  OO-ALC/MASMC has
~20 1040STs, varied color and mono systems.  Or how about GTE?  We
have 6 Mega-2 STs here, all monochrome.  Oh, and yes, we are a rather
"technical" market - testing and upgrading ICBM command and control
systems!

>                           And even it they did, I bet they'd hide 
> the nameplate to avoid being laughed out of a job.

Nope, sure don't.  Given the choice of my Mega, any PC-Clone, or any
Mac, for day-to-day work, I'd take the Mega.  Nice system, reasonable
speed, and the *BEST KEYBOARD I'VE EVER LAID FINGERS ON.*  Bar none.
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