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- From: molin@crs.cl.msu.edu (Michael Olin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Attempt at Objective View of Atari
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.065501.27990@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 06:55:01 GMT
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- jawalsh@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (John Anthony Walsh) writes:
-
- >After hearing all the hoopla about Atari and MIDI, there was not one
- >booth at this "Atarifest" running anything MIDI related. To me, this is
- >a serious flaw in organizing.
-
- Get used to it, if you're planning to get into the Atari environment...
- You'll like their hardware, but as a company they suck. They're small
- peanuts in a big barrel, and that's all they'll ever be until the
- current regime is overthrown. Don't count on that happening soon.
-
- >Can I get good software for
- >my machine (Wordprocessing, communications, database, etc.--I know there
- >are good DTP programs and plenty o' games).
-
- Find someone who has an Atari already and ask them to show you the
- demo version of Caligrapher... Regardless of Atari's desire to be
- the smallest computer company on the planet, you'll not regret owning
- one for word processing if you end up using this package.
-
- Find someone who has an Atari already and ask them to show you Flash
- or Flash II. Telcomm on the Atari is a joy!
-
- Look around for an Atari user group, and you'll find people who will
- happily show you the fun things they're doing with their Atari machines.
- Just don't tell Atari Corp that you like their machines. That seems
- to be a sure way to get them to not produce it.
-
- -MOlin
-