Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site teklabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekchips!teklabs!done From: done@teklabs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Cancellation of 1400/1450XL series Message-ID: <2295@teklabs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 12:17:10 EDT Article-I.D.: teklabs.2295 Posted: Wed Aug 3 12:17:10 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Aug-83 07:50:01 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 23 I heard an ugly rumor last night at our local Portland Atari Club meeting. It seems that the new Atari 1400XL and 1450XLD computers have been cancelled, even though a million dollars worth of advertising has already been sunk into them. For those who are unfamiliar, these models had built-in 300 baud modems and voice synthesizer chips, and the 1450XLD had a built-in slimline disk drive -- all for around $800. Apparently these models were cancelled because of IBM's announcement of the "Peanut", a version of their PC for around $1000 (this model was formally announced recently in the Wall Street Journal). Does anyone have any more information about this (i.e. confirm/deny)? I had gotten interested in this 1400 series because they were supposed to produce a card cage to go with it in order to encourage other vendors to provide a bunch of expansion boards (like an IBM emulation board, for example). If this cancellation rumor is true, after all the tooling and advertising has been done, I can only conclude that Atari has their head up their you-know-what. Comments? Don Ellis | USENET: {aat,cbosg,decvax,harpo,ihnss,orstcs,pur-ee,ssc-vax Tektronix | ucbvax,unc,zehntel,ogcvax,reed} !teklabs!done Oregon, USA | CSNet: done@tek | ARPAnet: done.tek@rand-relay