Xref: utzoo rec.games.video:6339 comp.sys.atari.st:26140 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!nuug!ifi!kjetilho From: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme) Newsgroups: rec.games.video,comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari and the Everyday Person Message-ID: <2702@ifi.uio.no> Date: 9 Mar 90 00:42:30 GMT References: <1990Mar08.192041.18597@pmafire.UUCP> Sender: news@ifi.uio.no Reply-To: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme) Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 23 Steve Reiser writes: > Amazing! Just last month I was reading that the Lynx was still a year > away from marketing. This was in a February issue of a video games > magazine. So apparently the publishers aren't even aware of what Atari > is doing. I was surprised myself as I read this article, to read that > someone was actually using a Lynx. When did it get on the market? How > much does it cost? How many games are available? I think I read in Popular Computing Weekly that 100,000 (!) Lynxes were sold in the USA during the Christmas rush, leaving all sources dry. Atari were careful not to advertise too much, as they knew that they could not keep up with the demand, and that would just damage their image... Now, this is what I *seem* to remember, and it may all be utter rubbish. Popular Computing Weekly, btw, is an English magazine. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Kjetil T. Homme // "I always read between the lies" // // Norway // (Goodman Ace) // ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////