Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!terak!doug From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro Subject: Re: New Atari Computers Message-ID: <261@terak.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 19:38:17 EST Article-I.D.: terak.261 Posted: Thu Jan 10 19:38:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 02:48:01 EST References: <582@voder.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.micro.atari:563 net.micro:9043 Er, um, say folks, but has it occurred to anybody that all of the great announcements from Atari are a smokescreen to cover up their financial troubles? ANYBODY can announce anything they dang please. I think I'll announce a system based on a VAX 11/780, with 2048X2048 pixels in 16 million colors, voice response and speech synthesis, priced at $49.95, to be available later this year. Wow! What a deal! The indications are that Atari will be in bankruptcy court very soon. Whether they avoid it or not, a reasonable observer would have to ask "Where are they going to get the money to design these great and wonderful machines, when they can't pay the bills they've already got?" Talk is cheap. It's all that Atari can afford right now. Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug