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 Lines: 22 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 ...ihnp4!ihlpe!kimes