Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA!Friesen From: Friesen@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Compute's ST Message-ID: <880714031857.936112@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA> Date: 14 Jul 88 03:18:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 It isn't just Atari that caused this magazine to fold, there were two other factors. 1. The marketing of the magazine was terrable. It was high priced and packaged so it was unable to read (I refuse to buy a magazine unless I know what I'm getting). 2. The economy is not in as good a shape as the government would have you beleive. Many economists say we are already in a depression, and many buisnesses are closing. Another sign of this was the lack of fireworks displays here in Phoenix Arizona. Although around the country many fireworks displays were cancelled due to drought, the weather here has been normal, and this year there were only about three displays here, and there are usually over fifty! All of the local malls seem to be losing the stores that had resided there for years. Has anyone else noticed a similar trend? I just felt it necessary to bring this into mind, that not only Atari related businessess are closing. Aric Friesen Addresses: Genie: A.FRIESEN ARPA: Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA "Lenny, ya durned fool, ya bought an Amiga!" "Gee George, I squashed the mouse!" ---"Of Mice and Men"