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Article #323Re: Expansion box for XLs
From: Neil Harris
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1986 19:14
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1986 19:14
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In article <1387021@UMich-MTS.Mailnet>, Howard_Chu@UMich-MTS.MAILNET writes:
> Sb: #ATARI EXPANSION SYSTEM
> DAVE , I WAS PAGEING THROUGH AN AUGUST 1983 COMPUTE MAGAZINE AND
> UNDER THE FALL CES I SAW AN EXPANSON SYSTEM FOR THE XL COMPUTERS.
> NOW I KNOW THAT ATARI NEVER PRODUCED SUCH A THI DO YOU THINK IF
> ATARI GOT ENOUGH REQUESTS IT WOULD BUILD IT.
>
> Well, Neil, I *know* you read this mailing list. What can you
> say about the expansion? Given enough pleas & cries from the
> user community, will it come out? How much demand is "enough"
> for such a product?
Nope, sorry, this product won't happen. It can't be built for a reasonable
price. You can demand all you want, but if we told you to send $800 for
each expansion box, I doubt there would be any takers.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!lll-crg!lll-lcc!vecpyr!atari!neil From: neil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari8 Subject: Re: Expansion box for XLs Message-ID: <390@atari.UUcp> Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 15:14:06 EDT Article-I.D.: atari.390 Posted: Thu Jul 17 15:14:06 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jul-86 05:58:59 EDT References: <1387021@UMich-MTS.Mailnet> Organization: Atari Corp/Mktg Lines: 28