Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!actor
From: actor@percival.UUCP (Clif Swinford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: This "Dying ST" nonsense
Message-ID: <1364@percival.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 88 17:25:10 GMT
References: <8809061721.AA27884@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <379@bdt.UUCP>
Reply-To: actor@percival.UUCP (Clif Swinford)
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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I don't know where this "The ST is a dying computer" bull is coming from,
but it certainly isn't the case around here. Our ST sales are as brisk as
ever, hampered only by the fact that we can't get enough 1040's to meet the
demand!

David Beckemeyer claims that ST sales are now only 20% of BDT's business.
I submit that that's because, powerful as they are, BDT's products are a 
pain in the gluteus maximus to use. I mean, we're talking about a machine 
with a windows-mouse-icons interface here. Most ST buyers are looking for
programs that DON'T require a command-line interface or a lot of manual-
reading to use. Yeah, I know that's not the case with a lot of the ST users
on the net, but we AREN'T typical ST users. I sell the things; I see who
buys them. And I have to teach these people things you'd think your average
cocker spaniel would intuitively grasp, day in and day out.

Atari has found their market. The great silent majority. The same folks
who voted for Reagan, read The Enquirer, and made The Gong Show a hit.
There's a lot of them out there...

(Sorry if I sound bitter, I just get tired of working with the brain-dead.)

-- 
     Clif Swinford
"This is not a dress rehearsal. It's a f***ing audition!"
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