aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) (06/23/91)
I have just read the message posted by Thomas Hill, SysOp of the Commodore SIG on the Cleveland Free-Net. There is no proof that Atari is doing bad anywhere. There is no proof that anyone is switching over to Amiga and if there are some, I am sure the same amount are switching to the ST. Thomas Hill is famous for attempting to "scare" Atari users into becomming Amiga users, especially on the Cleveland Free-Net. I should know, I am the Atari SIG Manager on the Cleveland Free-Net. There is no proof and frankly, I believe Tom just made up information on the new Atari computers being a flop because he doesn't really know and would like to think so. Many claim, especially developers that the TT030 will be easier to develop quality software on the TT than the Amiga. I'd like to wait and find out. After all, the TT030 hasn't even made it to the U.S. yet! It is at least one-year newer than the Amiga 3000 and I'm sure Atari had enough time to examine that of its competitors to bring you- a superior machine. The Mega STe will be selling for $1400 with 55 meg hard drive, 2 megs of RAM, LAN, etc. at an Atari Dealer in my home town. This is an amazing price and I definitely do not see failure there. Atari has had trouble manufacturing enough computers to compete properly. It is now over this problem with contracts with several new factories. Don't give up on your computer yet folks, because if you let messages like Tom's frighten you, Atari is doomed because of you not because of them. And don't worry about ST computer users switching to Amigas on Free-Net. They would be switching a computer that is supported by a SIG with a great amount of information to a computer with a SIG that only has "my computer is better than yours" messages throughout it. Len --