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From: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 in the UK
Message-ID: <3761@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 89 17:14:50 GMT
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In article <1705@atari.UUCP> kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
>ttensfeldt@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>
>|   Ken, who do I contact at Atari to complain about availability of TOS 1.4?
>[...]
>| [local dealer] was informed by his most recent dealer newsletter that he can
>| only get new roms in DTP systems and these have to be ordered in quantity.
>
>This is one of the big problems that a lot of folks are seeing when they 
>go to dealers.  The dealer newsletter went to press before the Rainbow TOS
>ROMs were in production, so very limited quantities were available.  They
>are available in quantity *now*, and our dealer services folks are working
>hard to get the information out to dealers.  As far as I know, there is no
 ^^^^

 How "hard" is it to send a single sheet of paper to ALL your dealers?
 Seems like in the days of computers, less-than-mass mailing would be easy.
 Perhaps someone at ATARI formatted the disk with the addresses of
 the "official" distributors of ATARI products.  ATARI's guess should
 be better than mine.

>Your dealer should contact Dealer Services at Atari Corp. (I don't know

 ATARI should contact their dealers.

> they don't let me out of my cubicle much these days 
>   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
>   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine


-ramsiri
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu