Friesen@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM (10/04/88)
I was very disgusted about the October issue of Antic. For one thing, they gave a review of the game Obliterator, and it was obvious that they hadn't played it, they had only read the instruction book. But even mor annoying was an article on page 27. It is supposed to be a stock analasis of Atari by some analyst named Isgur. Basically what the article says is the types of things Atari has stopped saying. He says Atari by this fall Atari will release a 68030 based machine as well as a laptop with a built in hard drive. He says that in January Atari will introduce their first 68000 game machine. He says the Atari transputers should be on sale before the end of the year. I do think this sounds interesting, but I just cannot believe any of it. This all sounds like the kind of thing Atari stopped doing. I guess stock analysts are going to fill the void of rumor hungry people! "Exterminate! Exterminate!"--Daleks /~\-* ###--< /***\ /*****\ Aric Friesen Addresses: Genie: A.FRIESEN ARPA: Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA
saj@chinet.UUCP (Stephen Jacobs) (10/06/88)
Aric Friesen posted an article bemoaning Antic's recent publication of a
summary of Lee Isgur's recent stock analysis opinion of Atari Corp., filled
with the kind of crystal ball announcements we used to get direct from Atari
spokespeople. For what it's worth, a lot of magazines fill space by quoting
securities analysts, Lee Isgur is highly regarded among both producers and
consumers of stock analysis, and possibility is the analyst's stock in trade.
It was the analysts who made the Wankel engine exciting a few years ago. As
regular as Atari's possible products used to be, drug companies hint at possible
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future drugs more regularly, with similar follow-through, and the analysts
report it, and value vapor at so many cents on the dollar.
It's hard not to repeat Phillipe Kahn's comments: the ANALists (pronounced
with a long a) PENILEize the computer industry. And his complaint that he
saw nothing wrong with Lotus releasing their new version of 123 later than
originally planned, but it bothered him that they seemed to be advertising
lateness as a *feature*, and that the analysts believed it.