Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mike
From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How is Atari doing in Germany?
Message-ID: <18427@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 Nov 88 07:51:39 GMT
References: <706@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> <426@bdt.UUCP> <11205@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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In article <11205@cup.portal.com> BobR@cup.portal.com (Bob BobR Retelle) writes:
<David Beckemeyer asks:
<>Has anyone else noticed that the few US software distributors that were
<>actually carrying Atari ST software are dropping the ST products?
< 
<The local "Electronics Botique" chain store has moved all remaining ST
<software to a small "island" display in the back of the store, and given
<the former ST wall space to expanding its Amiga and Macintosh shelves...
< 
[ deleted amusing stuff about Atari dealers bailing out like mice off
  a sinking ship ]

I was at a Major software house locally a couple of weeks ago discussing
a product and suggested an, excuse the expression, ST port. The 
guy there, one of the managers of softwere development said something 
to the effect :

   "Well, were scaling down our Atari work, due to their crummy sales.
    And frankly, I'm not all that disappointed about that (heh, heh)"
    
Needless to say, vindication was mine, all mine. . .
-- 
			   *** mike (starship janitor) smithwick ***
"Some people say I'm arrogant. But I know better then them" -
	 Mike Dukakis at the Al Smith Banquet
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]