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Article #23081Re: Why Atari can't succeed in the United States
From: Chris Herborth
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:19
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:19
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In <1993Jan20.131458.7069@cs.ruu.nl>, Annius Groenink writes: > Nonsense. Why didn't the Mac replace the IBM then? I don't think you can > say Apple 'blew it'. Anyway, I don't believe any of the stories of 'Atari not > being able to compete'. Those stories have always been there. There is no > reason why Atari couldn't go on at the same profile: a small market and not > very competitive prices, but the only machine below UNIX that you can call a > decent choice for architecture and style, not money. The Mac didn't take off for several reasons: 1) You were paying much more for less powerful hardware. 2) Mutant disk structure... only recently has DOS/whatever conversions become important and actually usable. 3) Apple was _very_ slow in getting hard drives working with Macs. There were a few 3rd party products but they were _very_ slow (over the serial port!) and _very_ expensive. By then, most PCs came with hard drives at apparently no extra cost to the consumer. -- -------------------========================================------------------- Chris Herborth cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca!semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca!cherborth From: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Message-ID: <H.ea.zQjFVCIzMy_@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> Organization: InterZONE Design Subject: Re: Why Atari can't succeed in the United States References: <C12rIA.BnE@ecf.toronto.edu> <)> <1jfo4jINNfo2@life.ai.mit.edu> <C14LrI.HM3@ecf.toronto.edu> <73968@cup.portal.com> <1993Jan20.131458.7069@cs.ruu.nl> Reply-To: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:19:00 EST Lines: 22