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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: new Atari products (query)
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Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 18:36:33 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 12 18:36:33 1987
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Summary: 1040ST -- The End User Machine

In article <982@husc6.UUCP> grunau_b@husc4.UUCP (justin grunau) writes:
>In article <1987@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@batcomputer.UUCP (braner) writes:
>>About the future of the 1040ST:  The people who just want the ST's
>>power for using games, word-processors, etc buy the 520ST, while the
>>1040ST is the favorite among programmers and such - which will obviously
>>switch to the Mega-ST.

     This is astounding to me.  Atari has been marketting the 1040ST as an
office machine and frankly, that's what I felt it was best used for.  The
lack of wires hanging around needlessly makes it an ideal "end user" machine
for business applications.  Doesn't anybody 'here' want to become a
"professional" programmer or consultant? (just joking ;-)

     The thing to do is to develop applications, package them and sell systems
to people who don't want to do programming, but don't want to muck around
with a "toy" computer with wires and little boxes cluttering up their desks.
Yes, I realize that I'm talking about going head to head with the PC Clones.
I think we are at the point where it's possible to do this with what's
currently on the market.

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