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From the Editor's Desk...
Memory Lane.... I stumbles across an old issue of Atari Adavantage from June of 1992.  Darlah had the STReport freebie account on GEnie killed in her and her husband's tantrum against STReport for telling Atari they were doing the users and some of their employees wrong.  Actually, its was because neither She nor her new husband at the time had little or no controll over the content in STReport and that seemed to grate against both of them pretty good.  Especially since at the time the bulk of their income came directly and indirectly from Atari and its activities.   In any case, we took up "residence" on CIS (Compuserve) with the blessings of Ron Luks.  (A first Class Gentleman who, at the time was the man as far as Atari was concerned.  Oh how certain people at Atari, The Iaad and ICD tried and tried to get Mr. Luks to revoke our support there.  Obviously they never succeeded). STReport is STILL here and most ALL of them are GONE.  On Compuserve we continued as we always did.  "Saying it like it is.... they hated that at Atari. One thing that gave us a boost was watching GEnie, with its horseblindered, shortsighted in the Atari RT's and their execs, slowly and agonizingly wither and die on the telecommunications vine.  The Internet had arrived and the manipulative control freaks were destined to fall by the wayside screaming and writhing over the loss of their "powers".  Atari ultimately went the way of the DoDo Bird and the loyal users took up the staff of the platform's life.  They have done well.  There will always be a fond remembrance of the users and the platform for me.  There were only a few people on the Atari platform who did the whole computer enchilada in.   They were all named Tramiels.  Long live Atari Users.

Whooops! Back to present day action.  We have Windows 98 Second Edition here and its pretty neat.  Once it hits the shelves.... don't hesitate the "bennies" are good. Elsewhere in this issue is an article about Windows you really need to take a look at.  Windows has come a long way.  And the future looks great.  When you get the chance grab Win98 SE its pretty good.

I don't think I'm wrong, I could be... what do think?  Let's hear from you!

As an aside, in case you haven't noticed, You can get a free EMail account through STReport! Sign-up on our website. Its FREE for life.  Enjoy!

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