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From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: --- BYTE & the ST ---
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Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 15:13:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 15:13:00 1985
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> Not true.  Jack Tramiel talked to anyone who would listen, and promised
> all sorts of dates and features which proved to be excessively
> optimistic.
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I don't know that "excessively optimistic" is fair.  The machine shipped
a couple of months late, which isn't too bad, and the features seem to
be in pretty good accord with the early discussions.
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> If you need a current example (other than quality software) look at the
> Atari CD ROM.  Yes CD ROMs do exist, DEC sells one, no they do not sell
> to end users for anything near $500, and they will not be near that
> price for over a year.  /* Written 11:48 pm  Sep 30, 1985 by
> sjl@amdahl.UUCP in ccvaxa:net.micro.atari */
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I don't know when/whether the Atari CD-ROM will ship, or what its delivered
price will be, but I wouldn't write it off yet.  It wasn't promised
until Fall, anyway.
-- 
scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
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