jgm8260@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (MITZEN, JG) (11/12/90)
Hey, just saw that Atari stock is down to 2 1/8! Maybe all Atari owners should
pull together some cash, get a lot of stock and finally get the company to
listen!
Even Nolan Bushnell's working for Commodore now...............:(
If you ever have nothing to do, try copying a DS disk with TOS 1.0..........
Someone above mentioned how nice the Mac desktop is. I'm not too familiar with
them, but when I was using one it seemed impossible to name folders and you
couldn't directly copy files or decide what you wanted a name of a backup to be
or................ maybe I was using an old Mac, but I'd probably still prefer
the intuitive but annoying TOS 1.0....................
-Joe
Any bets as to when Atari will fold or merge or who might buy it?mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Paul Greelish) (11/17/90)
Don't you know that Atari will never die, just hemhorrage forever? Seriously though, if they don't do some *SERIOUS* marketing of their new stuff, they may actually die. Amigas are advertised all over the place, constantly, in non-computer publications etc., but it's a big deal when Atari places one single ad. I mean, I've seen their ads for the Lynx and Portfolio, good products both, but an STe/TT ad? Nada. BTW, disk copying with TOS 1.0 is best done with a ramdisk. Also, you can do a *LOT* of things with the Mac desktop that you can't do on an ST, a good example being placing files/folders on the desktop... a fundamental thing, to me. Get a Spectre GCR-- the ultimate alternative desktop for the ST. ______________________________________________________________ |\ /| | \/ | ike Greelish Carnegie-Mellon U. undergrad quote: "CMU is as close to artificial reality as you can get in 1990." stupid disclaimer: My opinions are dictated to me by a 23 year old telepathic Chilean aardvark living in my closet.
gcarter@globey.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) (11/21/90)
I AGREE.
Goodness, the only thing I use my ST for is Turbo C programming, which is
the only program I find an actual JOY to run on the ST.
Anything else, if I didn't have my Mac emulator....I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WOULD
DO...probably drool all day long at PM 4.0, Word 4.0, Mathematica, VersaTerm,
Finder....GOD what would we do without Finder???
--Gregory
PS: I WOULD run this stuff NOW, but I don't have my MEGA that I ordered OVER
6 weeks ago!!!
What the hell is going on? Its Xmas shopping season and Atari doesn't even
have anything to sell??? Thats F'ed.