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- Subject: Re: The flaming of BobR (Was Re: Falcon030, resolutions, ...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.134358.164@cuphub.cup.edu>
- From: neubert@cuphub.cup.edu
- Date: 2 Jan 93 18:43:58 GMT
- References: <4890@wet.UUCP> <72178@cup.portal.com> <4898@wet.UUCP><1992Dec22.231343.10431@sfu.ca> <72259@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA
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- In article <72259@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- > Gordon Farrell asks:
- >
- >>What did Atari ever do to you to get you so rabid?
- >
- > Basically, and essentially, Atari Corporation, under the
- > management of the Tramiel family took a promising, leading-edge,
- > fresh approach, user friendly, and very hopeful computer system,
- > and for all intents and purposes, ruined it.
- >
- > In the process, they also affected the lives and livelihoods of
- > a lot of people who tried very hard to support the Atari computer
- > line, a lot of whom were, and are, my friends.
- >
- > Perhaps one of the worst things they've done, again and again,
- > is to raise false hopes among those who still support them and
- > their computers.
- >
- > I've been involved with Atari computers since the Warner days,
- > and I've supported Atari computer users all that time. I'll be
- > among the last group out the door when they turn out the lights
- > whenever that might be, too.
- >
- > I like my 520ST best of all the computers I've owned over the
- > years and use it daily. It makes me awfully sad to think of
- > what it might have become, if only its parents had cared about
- > it.
- >
- > BobR
-
-
- *VERY* well said, Bob. Though not a developer, I was an early user...
- and "believer...yes, I'm using my 1MB 1040STf right now. But after
- watching Atari shaft Shiraz and many other good people, I now only read
- this group for a good laugh. However, I had to give Bob some support.
-