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From: mars@athena.mit.edu (Anita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: What an Atarian is
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Date: 28 Mar 89 03:14:52 GMT
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Reply-To: mars@athena.mit.edu (Andy)
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I'd like to know what the average Atari ST user is like.  The Atari ST
users I know have a serious commitment to the machine(not the company)
and to the Hacker Ethic in its purest form(joy of computers for the 
sake of computing).  What motivated all you ST users to buy the ST?
Personally, since the days of the 2600, I've been an Atari fan.  After
seeing the 800, I became an Atari loyalists.  Everywhere I went,
people called the Atari a game machine, and claimed it inferior, which
made me very protective of Atari and furthered my loyality.  I
followed Atari's every move.  I planned to buy an Amiga when Atari
still retained control of it, but didn't purely because the name Atari
wasn't on it.  When the ST came out, I snatched mine up.  That is my
justification.  Why would any of you buy the ST when the IBM has more
support, the Apple has more innovation, and the Amiga more power?