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Ένα ενδιαφέρον Αμερικάνικο άρθρο, γραμμένο το 1989 που προβλέπει την πτώση του ST...
A reader called from Ohio the other day and asked about a strange computer. He said he'd never heard of it until he saw it mentioned in one of my columns.The name of this computer? The ST.
Must be something new, right?
No, the ST has been around for three or four years.
Then it must be an oddball design, right, something nobody would want?
No, the ST is probably the most universal of all personal computers. It runs IBM PC programs and Macintosh programs in addition to its own software.
All right, it sounds like a great deal. So how come practically nobody's ever heard of it? Who's keeping the ST from the American public?
The answer, strange as it may seem, is that the manufacturer of the ST itself is the guilty party. Despite the fact that it is an American company, the maker of the ST has virtually ignored the American market in order to sell the computer in Europe.
The ST was born in mystery, in a drama that a soap opera could hardly match
For a few months at the Atari company, the lights in the engineering department never went out. Tramiel was at war
The rich could have their $8,000 Macintosh II computers, while the everyday Joes and Janes could have their $1,000 STs
Όπως φαίνεται, πέρα από τα τεράστια λάθη στο marketing, που έκανε η Atari στην Ευρώπη, φαίνεται πως δεν ήταν ικανή και να προωθήσει τον ST, στην Αμερική (!)...But what's more amazing is that Atari, the American company that makes the ST, has chosen to leave the U.S. market in the cold. Instead, for the last two or three years it has pushed the ST in Europe. As much as 90 percent of all STs have been sold there
Όλο το άρθρο, εδώ.