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From: Dave_Ninjajr_Flory@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What an Atarian is
Message-ID: <16924@cup.portal.com>
Date: 9 Apr 89 17:06:50 GMT
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>your ST. Then go off and get a copy of PC Ditto so that you can have a 
>regular PC (which you could have got cheaper to start with). And then rush  [23;11H

>out to get a Magic Sac or Spectre so that you can have a Mac too. Do these
>people realise that they're killing the Atari themselves?
>Those of you who are USERS, let's hear what you're using, and 
>what for. 

Not at all killing Atari. Saving a lot of money and elminating the
purchase of a mac and an IBM/clone. I use mine at work to look at data,
and programs from Macs, IBM/clones, and Ataris that have been confiscated
from suspects. Makes my mega4 a triple threat machine. I have also been
able to pass on to my Mac and IBM user acquaintances, useful PD utls
they probably never would have seen if I had not happened across them
looking for ways to make the mac/ibm modes of my Mega more Atari like.

I use mine mostly for telecommunications, but a lot for word processing,
Desktop Publishing (I have seen nothing on Mac or IBM platforms that I
like better than Calamus with my SLM804), and CAD. I have an upgraded
1 meg 520 at home with a color monitor, but do most of my work at home
and at work with a mega 4 mono system. On the telecom side, any law 
enforcement people who happen to see this might want to check into
GEnie and look at page 255, A Law Enforcement RoundTable. Just opened.
With me and Greg Kranich as syops.