Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!imagen!atari!neil From: neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari's Marketing Approach Message-ID: <901@atari.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 19:02:24 EST Article-I.D.: atari.901 Posted: Fri Dec 4 19:02:24 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 06:38:11 EST References: <8711301706.AA18559@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <899@atari.UUCP> <5202@zen.berkeley.edu> Organization: Atari Corp/Mktg Lines: 27 Keywords: deperate pleas how to change image > Neil, I think Bill speaks not only for himself in this > case; many of us here on the Net would agree with him on this > matter. I can definitely see why you're advertising the game > machines; in not a few ways, the biggest market is still in > the usual home, where the average person may be more likely to > purchase a game system than an ST. BUT... Bill is right. I > think that even if you can't get the ST's out the door for > the Christmas masses, some advertising surely wouldn't hurt. >... > Neil, please listen to us. We are not here to make your > life harder :-), we want to help Atari, too. I've always bought > Atari, and I probably always will, provided Atari can keep > itself in the market. >... > P.S. Whatever happened to Atari (Microsoft Word) Write, anyways? Microsoft Write should be out at any moment. Within a week or two, actually. The other stuff is hard for me to argue with. I'm on record advocating more advertising of computers in the USA also. In this case though, I speak for me, and not the company. -- --->Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation UUCP: ...{hoptoad, lll-lcc, pyramid, imagen, sun}!atari!neil GEnie: NHARRIS/ WELL: neil / BIX: neilharris / Delphi: NEILHARRIS CIS: 70007,1135 / Atari BBS 408-745-5308 / Usually the OFFICIAL Atari opinion