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From: clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Portable Mac vs STACY
Summary: You got it right!
Message-ID: <1270@ultb.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 02:39:01 GMT
References: <2122@kodak.UUCP>
Reply-To: clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser)
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In article <2122@kodak.UUCP> nelson@kodak.UUCP (Bruce Nelson) writes:
>I'm puzzled ... I didn't see anything about the Portable MAC in comp.sys.mac,
>but ....
>
>Apple announced the Portable Mac at 1 pm, Wednesday, 9/20. I saw several at
>a computer show going on in Rochester this week.
>
>List prices for the units is $6499 with a 40 meg hard drive and $5499 with
>just a floppy drive. A second floppy costs $699.
>
>Now where are those STACY's, with GCR's, for under $2 grand?
>
>Timing is gonna be critical here - Atari can beat them at their game - if
>they try.
>
>Bruce Nelson

Atari is in an excellent position.  You have a portable ST with all the
features of this Mac portable.  You have the Spectre GCR by Dave Small,
an EXCELLENT Mac emulator.  Put them together, and you have a portable
Mac for 1/3 the price Apple wants.

Now for a company which uses Macs (such as Kodak), and a company looking
to cut costs (such as Kodak), a STacy bundled with the Spectre would win
over a Mac portable.  All Atari has to do is put them together and show
it off.  Apple would be devistated in the portable market.  Not only
would sales be EXCELLENT, but it would a great victory:  Atari whoops
Apple.

Atari:  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE talk to Dave Small!  Get a package deal
together!  All you have to do is to get STacy out the door at the same
time the Mac portable hits the streets.  After all, you ARE out to make
money, right?


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