Market Survey
21-Jan-88 14:13:14
Sb: #104527-Market Survey
Fm: Steve Ahlstrom 76703,2006
To: Mark Sloatman 74206,356
Mark,
Sorry I missed meeting you at the show.
Yes, I think marketing and product decisions have recently seriously
hurt Atari and helped CBM. Atari raised prices on the existing ST line, then
came out with 2 and 4 meg machines — at about the same time that 1 meg chips
are almost financially prohibitive to buy. While Atari was concentrating on
the upper end (price-wise) market, CBM comes along with the 500 to make serious
inroads in the (now) overpriced 520/1040 market. Ain't free enterprise fun!?