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From: rob@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Memory Upgrades (was Re: SLM804 woes)
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Date: 25 Jan 89 03:25:43 GMT
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In article <11830031@hpldola.HP.COM> ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie) 
writes:
[on not offering the customer upgrading possibilities]
>  The usual consequence of such policies that they will only sell you 
>ONE computer (fool me once, shame on you - fool me twice, shame on me). 
[list of good ideas deleted]

I think there is another problem here.  While it looks as if Atari may
start behaving marginally better for their future hardware, they still
are leaving their existing customers out in the void.

I have a 1040ST.  Since I bought it, at least one new release of TOS
has come out (megaroms).  Have I heard from Atari?  No.  Since I
bought my ST, the blitter chip has come out.  Have I heard from Atari?
There apparently is a co-processor effort under way.  Sorry, not for
the ST, mega's only.  GDOS has come out, no word from Atari...

Dear people at Atari, why on Earth did you include that customer
registration card with the machine?

The upshot of all this is that I will not recommend any Atari machine
to anyone, and I most certainly will never buy Atari again, no matter
what the price/performance value may be.

Rob Carriere