#Atari's Underhandedness
02-Jan-87 03:03:57
Sb: #46707-#Atari's Underhandedness
Fm: Steve Ahlstrom 76703,2006
To: Bob Lindstrom 76703,3052
I agree totally with your assessment of the phenomenom (and your assessment of
the Atari 8 bit). There are some obvious (to me, anyway) parallels that should
be looked at. The Atari 8 bit is/was far and away more of a complete machine
than the C64 — yet the loudest noises were heard from the C64 crowd. Now it
seems the loudest noise are coming from the Atari ST camp. It's interesting
that the C64 and Atari ST are Tramiel machines and the Atari 8 bit and Amiga
are Jay Minor machines.
(I do agree with Dan tho, that both average age of user and price paid for the
machine has a direct corelational to the 'loudness' of the evangelism).