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From: bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: User support? Re: harddisk-backup
Message-ID: <8533@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 90 18:36:04 GMT
Reply-To: bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
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In <"90-02-09-11:06:10.92*UK14"@DKAUNI2.BITNET> O. Steinmeier writes:

>...
>So, if you know a reliable, fast, cheap (PD or shareware preferred)
>harddisk backup program, would you send me a message?

So you want it to be fast, reliable, and do everything but wash the kitchen
sink but you don't want to pay for it????  Typical.

Besides the TOTAL lack of support from Atari Corp.(products, marketing, and 
distribution) the single most important factor contributing to the decline
(and eventual death unless something changes) of the ST is the unwillingness 
of users to PAY for quality software.  NOBODY wants to develop software for 
a machine that you can only sell 500 copies of a program before it's on half 
the bulletin boards across the country.  

Unless Atari starts selling more machines so there are a few more users to buy 
software AND unless ST users start supporting the machine through the purchase
of quality software there won't be any quality software to purchase!

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  Bob Luneski                                                             
  Diamond Back Support Hotline:  bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM                
                                 Genie: B.LUNESKI1                       
                                                                         
  The opinions expressed herein are my own and in no way reflect the     
  opinions of Tektronix, Inc.