🚀 go-pugleaf

Ah, STart has gone belly-up. I'm not surprised. The entire Atari market
has gone belly-up. It's next to impossible to get *anything* for your
Atari (in my experience) without resorting to Atari-specialty stores and
mail order (and even they are drying up.) People are deserting Atari
left and right: dealers, users, and certainly developers. Software is
slowing to a trickle. I hope to god I can sell my 1040ST, monitor,
printer, and tons of software for even a third of what I paid for it
all. Atari can't come out with a new product that will sell (or even
pass FCC approval, it seems.) There is no way in hell I would buy a TT,
even if it wasn't ridiculously overpriced. Atari may not go bankrupt,
but it'll take a miracle for it to get back anything like the market
share it once had.

I remember the golden years. I was twelve years old when I got my 48K
Atari 800 and tape drive. I was seventeen when I got my 1040ST. Now I'm
a starving college student with barely enough money to get a Mac LC if I
work my butt off all summer. I'm not trying to start a flame war here,
but Atari is on its last legs. No one I know wants anything to do with
them or their products. God, this sucks. I was brand loyal and didn't
buy an Amiga. I hate IBMs, and Macs still cost a lot. Atari used to have
good products at great prices. No more.

I'm sorry for the rant and rave. Maybe it's all the Tramiels' fault.
Maybe it's a natural economic cycle. Or maybe I've outgrown unreliable
companies like Atari. Apple Computer, here I come. *Sigh.*


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Carnegie Mellon U. undergrad, professional writing major
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