Sheldon_Hijacker_Chang@cup.portal.com (08/25/87)
ATARI BUYS THE FEDERATED CHAIN STORE! On August 23, 1987 Atari has announced that it will buy Federated Chain-Store for 67.3 million. This will give Atari 65 retail stores in California, Texas, Arizona, and Kansas. Is this another Rumor, is this a rumor somebody has created, or somebody at ATari has created??? Of course, if this isn't a rumor, Federated has to approve first, I hear they are in finacial difficulty. Will this be just like Chuck E. Cheese ?? I mean as in a Successful flop?? You know I was never shure if that was owned by Nolan Bushnell, or Atari. But I hear Bushnell got 4 mil out of it, when it was all over. Sheldon Chang cup.portal.com!sheldon.hijacker.chang Masters of Software BBS 408-371-7630 The Hotel California 408-253-5123
appelbau@topaz.rutgers.edu (Marc L. Appelbaum) (08/27/87)
In article <652@cup.portal.com> Sheldon_Hijacker_Chang@cup.portal.com writes: > ATARI BUYS THE FEDERATED CHAIN STORE! On August 23, 1987 Atari has > announced that it will buy Federated Chain-Store for 67.3 million. This will > give Atari 65 retail stores in California, Texas, Arizona, and Kansas. Is this > another Rumor, is this a rumor somebody has created, or somebody at ATari has > created??? Of course, if this isn't a rumor, Federated has to approve first, > I hear they are in finacial difficulty. > Nope it is not a rumor. It is TRUE! Neil Harris posted a message on GEnie about it! Now, if they would expand the chain to say the East Coast. -- -Marc L. Appelbaum Arpa:appelbau@topaz.rutgers.edu Uucp:{ames, cbosgd, harvard, moss, seismo}!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!appelbau Bitnet:appelbaum@zodiac.bitnet GEnie:M.APPELBAUM MOM's BBS:(201)-938-6906
K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET (08/28/87)
What I love about ATARI spending 67Mega$ on a Californian electronics shop
chain, is that they are spending the profits ATARI made in Europe, in
particular german speaking Europe (we surely have the highest
ATARI ST/population ratio in the world here), where they wont even spend
1k$ on a developers newsletter and where developers still have the
original version of Alycon C and just get a blank look from Atari people if
they mention something called 'updates'. Just suggesting to somebody here
that ATARI swaps complete computers for 90$, is likely to get you locked up in
a safe place.
Anyway if ATARI thinks that buying a chain of stores is going to help
the 'TOY MAKER' image ATARI has, then they've gone completly crazy:
ANY COMPUTER THAT CRASHES BECAUSE YOU HAVE A EXECEDED A 'NON-
DETERMINISTIC' LIMIT ('40' FOLDERS) IS A
TTTTTTTTTT OOOOOOOO YY YY !!!
TT OO OO YY YY !!!
TT OO OO YY YY !!!
TT OO OO YYYY !!!
TT OO OO YY !!!
TT OO OO YY
TT OO OO YY !!!
TT OOOOOOOO YY !!!
Not to mention all the other goofs: GDOS, Blitter ................
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Simon Poole
K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNETqsfa1@unx1.UUCP (Graham Thomas) (09/02/87)
> What I love about ATARI spending 67Mega$ on a Californian electronics shop > chain, is that they are spending the profits ATARI made in Europe > .... where they wont even spend > 1k$ on a developers newsletter and where developers still have the > original version of Alycon C and just get a blank look from Atari people if > they mention something called 'updates'. > .... > Not to mention all the other goofs: GDOS, Blitter ................ > > Simon Poole > K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET Simon Poole's right, as usual, to complain about European profits being 'repatriated' so that Atari can waste megabucks on buying Federated. Will Atari worry about such criticism, or about another message which highlights the fact that Leonard Tramiel suddenly considers the IBM emulator 'unimportant'? They show no sign of it. They're probably not even bothered by the fact that one of the most competent UK software houses, Computer Concepts (who wrote Fast Basic), are dropping ST work. Apparently CC are just fed up with the way Atari refuse to part with basic technical information - a complaint that's been echoed many times on this net. Here at Sussex University we now have lots of STs. When the time comes to replace them, I wouldn't hold out much hope that Atari will pick up much business. But that probably doesn't worry Atari either. Why should they spend money developing their products when it's so much more fun to play shopkeepers? -- Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK JANET: qsfa1@uk.ac.sussex.unx1 EARN/BITNET: qsfa1%sussex.unx1@ac.uk UUCP: ..mcvax!ukc!cvaxa!unx1!qsfa1 Phone: +44 273 686758
jdg@elmgate.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky) (09/14/87)
I was flamed pretty good for my admittly *strong* language a few monthes
ago about the ST and Atari and the Atari user's community. At the time
everyone was saying how wonderful the ST was and how lovly Atari Corp.
was. I made one really *STUPID* remark about the ST programming
community that was insensitive and wrong.
But I was not wrong about Atari Corp. CBM did themselves proud
by dumping the Tramiel clan. Atari Corporatio has come up with enough
empty promises and missed release dates to satisfy a decade worth of
business much less two years.
I got no "I told you so's" left. They ain't worth the breath expended
on them. "Power without the Price" has become "Business is War" with
ST owner's the POW's (I own one so I can speak). It seems Mr. Harris
has also adopted a "Tell 'em what they want hear" attitude. Re: The
postings others have fished from their archives about the Laser Printer
and Mega ST availabilty dates.
"Fool me once, shame on you", "Fool me twice, shame on me."
I'm not going to get fooled twice.
--
Jeff Gortatowsky {seismo,allegra}!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg
Eastman Kodak Company
These comments are mine alone and not Eastman Kodak's. How's that for a
simple and complete disclaimer?