🚀 go-pugleaf

While cleaning up my directory today, I found this posting that I stashed
away last June:

]From: neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris)
]Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
]Subject: Re: Mega-ST release date?
]Message-ID: <762@atari.UUCP>
]Date: 22 Jun 87 16:59:01 GMT
]References: <8706170944.AA19262@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1342@xanth.UUCP>
]Organization: Atari Corp/Mktg
]Lines: 24
]Posted: Mon Jun 22 12:59:01 1987
]
]In article <1342@xanth.UUCP>, src@xanth.UUCP (Scott R. Chilcote) writes:
]
]>>A question for Atari: Is there an official release date for the Mega-ST?
]>>                    Simon Poole
]
]>      For what it's worth, the latest word from the Ministry of Release Dates,
]>as posted on GENet, Is that the Mega ST will released at the far end of 
]>August and may likely be held over into September.  The problem is not with 
]>the Megas,
]> which are purportedly finished and bug-free (ha ha), but with the laser
]>printer.  To get instant attention from the desktop publishing biz, Atari 
]>wants to introduce BOTH machines at the same time. 
]
]I don't know how these stories get out, I swear.
]
]The Mega ST release is imminent.  We see no reason to wait on the laser
]printers to get the Megas out the door.  The SLM804 (laser printer) will be
]ready well in advance of September.
]
]Sheesh!
]-- 
]--->Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation
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I haven't been watching too closely, but have the Mega ST and the laser 
printer been released yet?