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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari 030 box (giggle)
Message-ID: <371@stag.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 88 16:39:04 GMT
References: <679UD140469@NDSUVM1> <22782@bbn.COM> <943@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> <107@obie.UUCP>
Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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In article <107@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>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!

I agree. When I used to work at Zycad, we bought Mono and Color ST's
to use as VT100 terminals into our Vax and Apollo systems, plus local
compiling and editting when the 'big' computers were on the blink.
Even where I work now (ETA), we have a smattering of ST's.

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

only if they are really insecure people...all it takes is to leave
something like CAD 3D, Tempus, or anything with a little pizzaz (NEO
pictures or Steve Pauley's LCD clock) up on the screen and you will
get a LOT of people interested in the ST. Most people have just never
seen an ST in operation, so they have some perverted view of it as
something like the 2600 game machine...

-Todd Burkey
 trb@stag.UUCP