Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihnp4!ihlpe!kimes
From: kimes@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Comdex report
Summary: Why be surprised?
Keywords: 8bits Comdex none
Message-ID: <2932@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 May 88 12:41:42 GMT
References: <8254@eecae.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <8254@eecae.UUCP>, conklin@eecae.UUCP (Terry Conklin) writes:
> Well after 2 days at Comdex, we got our work done early and came home so
> I thought you might be interested at what was news.
> 
> The Atari booth had Mega ST's everywhere. Almost every display was a
> Mega, except for an occasional 1040. After searching the entire booth, I
> finally asked and found that Atari did not have a _single_ 8 bit on
> display.
> 
As far as I know, Atari has never displayed or tried to push the 8bit 
machines at COMDEX.  This simply is not the right show for it.   On the
other hand, they should have a pretty good push of the 8bit machines,
especially is the guise of the XE Game Machine, next month at the Summer
Consumer Electronic Show here in Chicago.  I will be looking at Atari
and all the third party software houses to see what, if any, bright spots
I can find.  ANTIC usually has reports on Compuserve that someone posts
here.  I will have my own report, although much abbreviated from what you
can find there.

					Kit Kimes  
					AT&T--Information Systems Labs
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