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Article #29490Re: Atari's Marketing Approach
From: Neil Harris
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1987 00:02
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1987 00:02
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> Neil, I think Bill speaks not only for himself in this
> case; many of us here on the Net would agree with him on this
> matter. I can definitely see why you're advertising the game
> machines; in not a few ways, the biggest market is still in
> the usual home, where the average person may be more likely to
> purchase a game system than an ST. BUT... Bill is right. I
> think that even if you can't get the ST's out the door for
> the Christmas masses, some advertising surely wouldn't hurt.
>...
> Neil, please listen to us. We are not here to make your
> life harder :-), we want to help Atari, too. I've always bought
> Atari, and I probably always will, provided Atari can keep
> itself in the market.
>...
> P.S. Whatever happened to Atari (Microsoft Word) Write, anyways?
Microsoft Write should be out at any moment. Within a week or two, actually.
The other stuff is hard for me to argue with. I'm on record advocating more
advertising of computers in the USA also. In this case though, I speak for
me, and not the company.
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