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- From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: "DiskDoubler" type program
- Message-ID: <71746@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 15:47:01 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1fmvruINNfji@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- Erlend Nagel writes:
-
- >>That's great.. but.. how come no one else has ever heard of
- >>"DataLight"..?
- >Well I have so you cannot say no one else has ever heard of Datalight!
-
- You're absolutely right.. I should have said no one in the US has heard
- of it..
-
- That's one of the really distressing things about the way the Atari market
- has become fragmented. We know, from reading here on UseNet that there
- are wonderful things in Europe, but we've hever heard of them here.
-
- There are several choices in the PC market for "disk doubler" types of
- programs, but the only one widely available in the US was Data Diet, and
- now its future is unclear..
-
- It's very frustrating.. a lot like owing a European or Japanese car
- because you like them better than what the American manufacturers offer,
- but having to wait two months to get a part shipped from Tokyo.
-
- BobR
-