Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: --- BYTE & the ST --- Message-ID: <2800010@ccvaxa> Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 15:13:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.2800010 Posted: Thu Oct 3 15:13:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 06:30:04 EDT References: <265@aum.UUCP> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:aum.UUCP:-26500:ccvaxa:2800010:000:939 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece Oct 3 14:13:00 1985 > Not true. Jack Tramiel talked to anyone who would listen, and promised > all sorts of dates and features which proved to be excessively > optimistic. ---------- 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. ---------- > 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 */ ---------- 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 ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece