22 Dec
2000
22 Dec
'00
4:21 p.m.
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Jeff Hellige wrote:
A guy in New England bought their remaining stock after a
clearance sale. He sold thru the newsgroup for a while. Don't know
if he is still doing it.
At 06:49 PM 12/21/00 +0100, you wrote:
IIRC, they had clearance sales until some years ago, but I suppose
some of the other Atari traders bought remaining supplies. I hope it
didn't go the same way as the Apple Lisa, at least.
True, Toad pulled out a few years ago.
What ever became of Toad's inventory of stuff when they dropped it?
Did they continue selling it until it was gone or did they somehow
get rid of it all in a fairly small length of time? I remember a
buddy of mine going in there during one of our trips to the store
and buying a couple of hundred dollars worth of Lynx cartridges.
They had a pretty decent selection onhand. I generally got my TOS
upgrades from them. Best are indeed still in the business. Err, isn't
there some US
shop called "Homa", too? Of course, there's the shady System
Solutions of the UK, as well as Keychange Music. And a range of
retailers in Germany, of course.
I remember hearing about System Solutions but the other's don't
ring a bell. I guess since Toad wasn't more than 1-1/2 hours drive
from where we lived and my buddy and I made frequent road trips up
to the store, there wasn't much need to look much further for Atari
stuff. The copule of times I did, I generally went with Best. System solutions are the English importers of the
MagiC OS and
publishers of some hardware, such as rumoured PPC accelerators and PCI
buses.
There's also an inventive guy in New Zealand, Mario Becroft, who
makes various adapters such as one that allows you to use your
ST with an SVGA monitor.
http://gem.win.co.nz/
ciao larry
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