Atari going after retro community?

thats how they make their money though and atari was bought out On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Dave McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: > On 08/23/2011 02:27 PM, Michael Kerpan wrote: > >> I suspect that most companies with ties to computing's past really >> don't really understand or care about fans of ancient hardware and >> software. Atari's heavy-handedness is a good example in the realm of >> "small iron" but examples can be found in the "large iron" realm >> favored by many people on this list too... Mentec/successor's >> stonewalling of the PDP-11 community and IBM's occasional lash-outs >> against Hercules come to mind quickly. >> > > Well IBM is losing real money. Atari, today, is irrelevant. What is it > that they think they're going to accomplish? > > Someone should just buy them, open up the intellectual property, and fire > all the idiot suits who work there. Should cost about eight bucks. > > -Dave > > > -- > Dave McGuire > Port Charlotte, FL >