Xref: utzoo rec.games.video:6347 comp.sys.atari.st:26150 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!brunix!rjd From: rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) Newsgroups: rec.games.video,comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari and the Everyday Person Message-ID: <32102@brunix.UUCP> Date: 9 Mar 90 15:59:32 GMT References: <1990Mar08.192041.18597@pmafire.UUCP> <2702@ifi.uio.no> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 36 In article <2702@ifi.uio.no> kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme) writes: >Steve Reiser writes: > >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. The Jan-Feb issue of "Current Notes" (an *excellent* rag put out by - I believe - a consortium of Atari user groups) has a pretty decent, realistic article on the Lynx-vs.-GameBoy fiasco. The figure used in that issue was closer to 70,000 Lynxs sold. You know, I picked up my first copy of Current Notes a few months back, not expecting too much because it had that "put out by a user group" look to it. You know: desktop published, black and white from cover to cover, etc... I have to say, it was one of the best researched, best written, most *honest* Atari specific magazines I have ever read. Product reviews were honest - none of this "everything on the Atari is perfect" attitude...the editorials were realistic - analysis of Atari US's marketing was right on target...the articles were well researched - no "well, gosh, we've seen pictures of the TT, so it must be almost done" stuff... Hats off to the Current Notes people... - Rob DeMillo | Internet: rjd@brown.cs.edu Brown University | BITnet: DEMILLO%BRNPSG.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU Planetary Science Group | Reality: 401-273-0804 (home) "I say you *are* the Messiah, Lord! And I ought to know, I've followed a few!"