Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!utah-gr!stride!tahoe!wheeler!mikew From: mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu (Mike Whitbeck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Wait a Sec... (was Re: Atari fair at Duesseldorf (West Germany)) Message-ID: <1579@tahoe.unr.edu> Date: 14 Sep 88 23:41:14 GMT References: <8809061721.AA27884@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <379@bdt.UUCP> <5618@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@tahoe.unr.edu Reply-To: mikew@wheeler.UUCP (Mike Whitbeck) Organization: DRI-WRC Reno Lines: 52 In article <5618@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> soohoo@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Ken Soohoo) writes: >In article <379@bdt.UUCP> david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes: >>In article <8809061721.AA27884@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> writes: > >[Dying computer remarks from Germany deleted] > >> >>I've been hearing this "dying computer" attitude from dealers, distributors, >>and even some magazine publishers (always the last to go) for several months, It is a pity that there is not a bigger push in marketing the ST's and MEGA's as OFFICE machines ! I have an XT (clone) in my office, a 1040ST and a second 1040 at home. I NEVER turn on the XT anymore. The ST is BETTER SUITED TO MY USES! I use it as a workstation on a SUN 3/280- with the ST I can use the best comm pgm I have ever found (UNITERM- pd), I can compile C, FORTRAN, or PASCAL, spreadsheets, wordprocessing.... just like a MAC+ or XT but faster! In fact with the release of SPECTRE 128 I expect to not only beat a MAC+ in performance BUT WHILE RUNNING MAC SOFTWARE!! IS THIS VALUE OR WHAT! Others in my office opted for MAC+- you should hear their complaints about memory shortage when trying to use a WORDperfect, etc. Say what you will about atari or the ST it is the best buy I could find! Knowing what I do about my ST - if I heard atari would close shop tomorrow I would rush to a dealer today because the 1040ST DOES SO MUCH FOR THE PRICE!!!!!!! But please, someone bring European hardware/software business products over to the US!!! ethernet , TeX and many other goodies await if only someone (like atari) would push this or the mega hard in the US as a sensible alternate office machine !! Thats my 2cents. If I offend any MAC owners dont write- I love MAC software I just dont love the MAC price all that well. As for the XT ditto.... |Mike Whitbeck | | |Desert Research Inst. | mikew@wheeler.wrc.unr.edu | |POB 60220 | | |RENO, NV 89506 | 702-673-7348 | ___________________________________________________________ |Mike Whitbeck | | |Desert Research Inst. | mikew@wheeler.wrc.unr.edu |