shawl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (04/12/89)
As an ATARI ST user, and a professional scientist (astronomer), I have often wondered how many other professional scientists use an ST at work. If you fall into this category, please let me know who you are, your general field, and the type of institution you're at; I will compile this and post it (eventually!!). Are you able, through your institution's purchasing system, to purchase ATARI or are you, like me (at the University of Kansas) limited by State contract procedures (to MAC and Zenith)? (Part of the purpose of this is to show myself that I'm not the ONLY one out there to go against the tide of Mac and PCs!) Stephen J. Shawl Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 Bitnet: shawl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu SPAN : kuphsx::shawl
rjd@brunix (Rob Demillo) (04/16/89)
Sorry to post this here, but it got bounced back to me... In article <4934@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> shawl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >As an ATARI ST user, and a professional scientist (astronomer), I have often >wondered how many other professional scientists use an ST at work. >If you fall into >this category, please let me know who you are, your general field, and >the type of institution you're at; I will compile this and post it >(eventually!!). I work at the Brown University Planetary Geology group, and we are a heavy Atari shop. For our main processing we use VAX clusters and workstations, but for word processing, small off-line tasks, and TekTronix emulations we rely on about 10-15 Atari STs in various configurations. (520s, 1040s, Mega 4s ... combos of color and mono). We are also seriously looking into the ATW. For communicating with the professors (Brown is Mac-happy) we use Magic Sac and Spectre without problems. Our lab does mostly image processing, mapping, mission planning, graphics and numerical analysis. >Are you able, through your institution's purchasing >system, to purchase ATARI or are you, like me (at the University of Kansas) >limited by State contract procedures (to MAC and Zenith)? > Well, we can only buy Macs and IBMs through the University computer store, but a local Atari retailer gives us a university discount, so we deal thru them directly. (Our grad students are now purchasing Atari's for themselves...they can get the equivalent of a Mac SE with a hard drive for about 1/2 the price of a plain SE.) I suspect we spent about $8-$10K on Atari products last year alone. >(Part of the purpose of this is to show myself that I'm not the ONLY >one out there to go against the tide of Mac and PCs!) You aren't... > >Stephen J. Shawl >Department of Physics and Astronomy >University of Kansas >Lawrence, KS 66045 > >Bitnet: shawl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu >SPAN : kuphsx::shawl - Rob DeMillo | UUCP: ...ima!brunix!rjd Brown University | BITnet: DEMILLO%BRNPSG.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU Planetary Science Group | Reality: 401-863-3769 "I say you *are* the Messiah, Lord! And I ought to know, I've followed a few!"