ttensfeldt@eagle.wesleyan.edu (12/08/89)
>Date: 4 Dec 89 20:28:27 GMT >From: imagen!atari!kbad@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ken Badertscher) >Subject: Rainbow Tos Porblems >Message-ID: <1851@atari.UUCP> >gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore) writes: >| What's a local dealer? >| (this prevents me from even thinking about the upgrade) >Think again. Atari has a service in place for users who don't have >dealers near them to get the Rainbow TOS upgrade installed. Call Atari >Customer Service for information on how to get the upgrade. >-- > ||| Ken Badertscher (ames!atari!kbad) > ||| Atari R&D System Software Engine > / | \ #include <disclaimer> Ken and John, Before I say anything else.... THANK YOU for being here so that we get SOME information about hardware, software, new stuff, etc. The magazines all seem to be disappearing but some of us want to continue using our machines and need up to date info on them. Again thanks... That out of the way.... I just called Atari Customer Relations, (4:00 pm 12-6-89) after reading this message. I reached a very pleasant voice (sorry I didn't get her name), that informed me that NOWHERE in the NORTHEAST can I buy the Rainbow TOS upgrade and could not buy it direct ... only from a dealer. She rattled off a list that included a place in KANSAS CITY. I am not likely to be going there soon and don't want to travel there to buy computer equipment. To be fair she did mention a place in CORAM NY, which from the 516 area code sounds like it is upstate somewhere. I am in eastern Connecticut and there are no dealers near here. The only shop that I guess WAS a registered dealer at one time is about 60 miles from here. That is not a problem. He informs me, however, that Atari told him that he could not get the Rainbow TOS unless it was with Desktop Publishing Systems. That really is too bad because he runs a very good place, stocks a fair bit of software, has a few pieces of hardware and continues to do hardware repair for the machines. I think though that he has lost interest in doing business with Atari. I am not here to bitch about Atari and its problems however. I just wanted to let you know that there doesn't seem to be a way to distribute the new TOS to people who do not have dealers near them. I don't really expect you to be able to do anything about it. I doubt that that is in your job description. I just wanted to let you know that your previous posting seems inaccurate. By the way, I happened to think my Atari 520ST is real useful. I have added a 50Mb drive and just today bought an Aerco memory upgrade for it from my "LOCAL" dealer. It was worth the 60 mile drive. The machine is not the be all and end all of computers, but fits my needs for the moment. P.S. It is EXTREMELY gratifying to see professionally wrought software being produced for the Atari ST. In light of this thanks to Jos Vermaseren for FORM. I wish I could figure out a way to get the local dvi to alw (apple laserwriter) program to process this. It seems to need a preamble or postamble or something like that. Hey.. I am just learning TeX and it is slow going. =============================================================================== Tom Tensfeldt Bitnet: TENSFELDT%Eagle.WESLYN@Wesleyan.Bitnet Internet: TTENSFELDT@Eagle.Wesleyan.Edu or 4 Laurel Avenue, Ledyard, CT 06339 (203)-464-9009 Pfizer, Inc., Box 100, Groton, CT 06340 (203)-441-4835 Chemistry Dept, Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, CT (203)-347-9411 X2635 ===============================================================================
ajy2208%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (12/11/89)
In article <4796@eagle.wesleyan.edu> ttensfeldt@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes: > I am in eastern Connecticut and there are no dealers near here. The only > shop that I guess WAS a registered dealer at one time is about 60 miles > from here. That is not a problem. He informs me, however, that Atari told > him that he could not get the Rainbow TOS unless it was with Desktop > Publishing Systems. That really is too bad because he runs a very good > place, stocks a fair bit of software, has a few pieces of hardware and > continues to do hardware repair for the machines. I think though that he > has lost interest in doing business with Atari. > I am also from Eastern Connecticut.. There are no dealers near Groton (I'm from New London), however there used to be a dealer in Rhode Island... I haven't been there in a while though (since I go to school in Rochester New York). I think it is near the Warwick Mall (or in it??). The place you mentioned sounds like Derek's Electronics right above New Haven. A good friend of mine bought his first ST there (520), and later purchased a Mega ST2 system from Derek's also. That's the only Atari dealer I've been to in CT!!! (unfortunately). At least we have ONE Atari dealer here in Rochester, but it's more like a IBM/Amiga dealer that also happens to have STs (they'd much rather sell you an Amiga). I recently visited Cleveland and had the opportunity to visit two ATARI ONLY stores. Something I can only dream of around here. > Pfizer, Inc., Box 100, Groton, CT 06340 (203)-441-4835 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ How's the air over there? :-) (I used to drive by Pfizer's every day to get to work at the CG R&DC at Avery Point).. _____________________________________________________________________________ Albert Yarusso, Rochester ajy2208@ritvax.bitnet,ajy2208@ultb.isc.rit.edu Institute of Tech. _________________________________________________________ Computer Science /___ / {rutgers, ames}!rochester!ritcv!ajy2208 ______________________/ / ajy2208@ritcv.cs.rit.edu GEnie: A.Yarusso