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Started by Dr. Funk
Fri, 23 Mar 1984 16:32
The business.
Author: Dr. Funk
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 1984 16:32
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 1984 16:32
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Just a few comments to follow up on Kit Kimes' message. Atari made a bad pricing mistake with the 600XL. Since the 600XL list is about $100 less than the 800XL and the 64K expansion module costs about $100, it doesn't take too much reasoning to buy an 800XL in the first place and blow off the expansion unit. One can only assume that Atari marketing types had their brains addled by too many episodes of the "Dukes of Hazard" or "Riptide." :-) The amount of technology packed into the $250-$300 800XL is still pretty amazing. The AtariWriter and Logo cartridges look like winners to me. AtariWriter, by the way, has just moved into the Billboard Top Ten Software chart. It's truly unfortunate if the program exchange is dropped. Perhaps Atari feels that the "regular" software houses are now producing enough product to keep the XL line alive. Would anyone care to speculate on future Atari machines? I fully expect a Smalltalk (or some such) expander which uses an XL as the graphics engine. paul drongowski case western reserve university decvax!cwruecmp!pjd paul drongowski decvax!cwruecmp!pjd case western reserve university pjd.Case@Rand-Relay
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