🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <462a4b3d.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
>Ok, now weill I didn't go to the WAACE Atari fest last weekend, I heard that
>the STacy on display at the show was the same old prototype that Atari has
>been showing for months!! It wasn't even a production model.

I personally have never heard of a Stacy4 with 4 megs of RAM and an internal
hard drive, until I saw it at the Fest.
There is some problem with the local editor and what terminal type it thinks
I'm using, so some of the lines from your old message seem to have disap-
peared.  Your definition of Vaporware is... well, not what I would consider
OK.  The STacy isn't vaporware.  It is unavailable.  Vaporware means, to me,
the product doesn't exist in any form.

>P.S. so, where was the TT, 1040STe, CD ROMs, PC DITTO II?? Did Atari
>have the TOS 1.4 EPROMs for sell at the show?? Did Atari, the company,
>show anything NEW at the show??
The TT etc. were absent (I'm a little upset at that too).  Atari wasn't there
to sell anything (they seldom, if ever, SELL anything at a show, just demo
stuff).  The new stuff they showed, aside from the STacy4, was the Portfolio
and a Megafile 60 (not very exciting, but it IS new).
>
>Nope. I thought not.
Since you yourself said you werne't there, I wish you'd stop making statements
that would require your presence to verify them.

>I, for one, am just waiting for Jim Allen to develope his 68030 board for the
>Mega ST. I hear that he might even add more memory to it. And maybe better
>color graphics!! Heck, maybe Jim Allen (designer of that wonderful product
>Turbo16!!) can do what Atari has failed to do: 
>	Design a 68030 computer and market it!!!
>
I'd rather have a computer designed for an '030.  The Mega is too closed an
architecture to allow any good to come from putting an 030 in there (compared
to a real 030 machine).
>I heard that Jim Allen was at the WAACE show. Did anyone talk to Jim??
>Richard Covert

If I didn't now better, I'd say someone else wastrying to type into this
document. <sigh>

One question I wish you'd ask yourself is this:
  what good is all this complaining doing?

Mike Matthews