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In article <72259@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
> Gordon Farrell asks:
> 
>>What did Atari ever do to you to get you so rabid?
> 
> Basically, and essentially, Atari Corporation, under the
> management of the Tramiel family took a promising, leading-edge,
> fresh approach, user friendly, and very hopeful computer system,
> and for all intents and purposes, ruined it.
>  
> In the process, they also affected the lives and livelihoods of
> a lot of people who tried very hard to support the Atari computer
> line, a lot of whom were, and are, my friends.
> 
> Perhaps one of the worst things they've done, again and again,
> is to raise false hopes among those who still support them and
> their computers.
> 
> I've been involved with Atari computers since the Warner days,
> and I've supported Atari computer users all that time.  I'll be
> among the last group out the door when they turn out the lights
> whenever that might be, too.
>  
> I like my 520ST best of all the computers I've owned over the
> years and use it daily.  It makes me awfully sad to think of
> what it might have become, if only its parents had cared about
> it.
> 
> BobR


*VERY* well said, Bob.  Though not a developer, I was an early user...
and "believer...yes, I'm using my 1MB 1040STf right now.  But after
watching Atari shaft Shiraz and many other good people, I now only read
this group for a good laugh.  However, I had to give Bob some support.