news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu (Six o'clock News) (04/06/88)
> Does anybody actually still believe they [Atari] will follow up with ACTION? > >And to you "still-optomistic" people... It's nice to be positive. >Everybody prefers good news to bad. But would you really invest in >Atari again, if you knew then what you know now? I sure wouldn't. >-- >David Beckemeyer | "Yuh gotta treat people jes' like yuh >Beckemeyer Development Tools | do mules. Don't try to drive 'em. Jes' >478 Santa Clara Ave, Oakland, CA 94610 | leave the gate open a mite an' let 'em >UUCP: ...!ihnp4!hoptoad!bdt!david | bust in!" From: seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Matthew Eric Seitz) Path: cory.Berkeley.EDU!seitz Yes, I would still invest in Atari. I've worked with numerous other personal computers, and for my uses ( terminal, word processing, minor programming, etc. ) Atari does the job as well as or better than Apple, IBM, Amiga, etc., for less money. Yes, Atari is sometimes a little slow, but I've heard as many complaints about the slowness of all the other PC manufacturers. (* Minor Flame On *) On the other hand, the one product associated with my ST that has been a major dissapointment is a program called AnsiTerm, which is distributed by Beckemeyer Development Tools which liscensed the program from someone else. The documentation that came with the program was incorrect in many minor respects, and the Kermit and Xmodem transfer protocols were unreliable. Thank God ( and Simon Poole ) for Uniterm, which does for free twice as much as this $24.95 program. BDT never has contacted me with any bug fixes or upgrades in the 12 months since I purchased the program. I was unable to get any assistance from their BBS, partially because it repeatedly generated random garbage which made it unreadable and unusable. Fortunately, their support staff is helpful when you call them direct. So, Mr. Beckemeyer, next time you feel the urge to criticize Atari, please take a few minutes to look through your files of registration cards from AnsiTerm purchasers. Then, rather than throwing stones, ask what you can do to help those customers who trusted and supported you to get the most from their ST. (* Flame Off *) Matthew Seitz seitz@cory.berkeley.edu