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ANTIC-4 AT CES [message #80394] Mon, 03 June 2013 23:22
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Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 23:14:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  7 23:14:01 1985
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    Another ANTIC report from CES85. 
    This report is of special interest
    to software developers.  Jack
    Tramiel comments on the ATARI
    philosophy toward software
    development support and the new
    line in statements before the
    Software Publishers Association.
    

 ANTIC ONLINE NEWS
 SPECIAL BULLETIN

 Permission to reprint or 
excerpt is granted only if the 
following credit line appears 
at the top of the article:

 ANTIC SPECIAL BULLETIN, 
 REPRINTED BY PERMISSION. 
 COPYRIGHT 1985, ANTIC 
 PUBLISHING INC.

 Tramiel opens Atari up to 
software artists 

 Sunday, 6 January 1985

 by MICHAEL CIRAOLO, Associate 
 Editor, Antic

 Las Vegas--Atari chief Jack 
Tramiel promised the Software 
Publishers Association that he 
would open Atari up to software
developers.

        "I'll open the new 
Atari machines up the way Apple
opened up the Apple II," 
Tramiel said.  "I need your 
help, and will give you any 
support you need."

        Tramiel promised 
technical and financial support
for those writing software for 
his new ST line of 16-bit, 
68000-based personal computers.


        The former head of 
Commodore also said he would 
try to put the new ST machines 
in the hands of software 
developers by the end of 
January, three months before 
the computers are available on 
retail store shelves.

        Software publishers 
reacted with a wait-and-see, 
yet warm attitude to Tramiel's 
announcement.

        Tramiel said he was 
expecting entertainment, 
business, educational and 
scientific software. 

        "We are serving 
everyone," Tramiel said, 
stressing that the ST line was 
a series of personal computers,
not home machines.

        Tramiel said he would 
give financial support to "any 
young man with good ideas who 
is starting a business.  I'll 
give him some money for the 
work he's doing for us."

        When asked about 
continued support for the 8-bit
XE series, Tramiel told 
publishers that he would 
support an entire line of XE 
computers and peripherals as 
long as the consumer continued 
buying them.

        Tramiel said that he 
had been working with Digital 
Research for over nine months 
on the ST design.  He stated 
that Tramiel Technologies Ltd. 
would have brought the ST 
series to market, even if he 
had not bought Atari from 
Warner Communications.  Tramiel
said that the sophisticated 
consumer was "bored with the 
6502 technology," and that the 
ST series was the "most 
exciting upgrade path" 
available at the lowest 
possible price.

         At the end of the 
conference, Tramiel answered a 
question regarding disk drives 
with a very surprising quote.  
"Atari will be introducing a 15
Megabyte hard disk compatible 
for the ST series for under 
$400 before June CES."
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