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From: neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari's Marketing Approach
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Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 19:02:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 19:02:24 1987
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> 		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.

-- 
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