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!
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