Author: Loyal Atarian (209.249.158.100.safeweb.com)
Date: 03-26-2001 21:39
Shame on IBM for assisting the Nazis in sorting, classifying, selecting innocent people to die in their concentration camps.
Kudos to Atari for trying to go against the propagandistic hate foisted upon the public by what was Microsoft. Atari - Power without the Price (and future repercussions) of Microsoft - the right hand of IBM in terms of propagating the IBM PC architecture which incorporates the Hollerith tabulating machine's techniques present in every modern PC in most homes businesses and governments - the ultimate tracking tool.
Will governments and businesses use this tracking tool that everyone owns now to some day do the same selecting, sorting, classifying that IBM helped the Nazis do during World War II? For evil? To rid the world of undesireables? Like drug users or those predispositioned to genetic defects?
And you may wonder why Microsoft used propaganda to essentially bury the importance Atari had in the early 80s. Atari was positioned to be the number one personal computer of the 1980s. Conspiracy brought them down. Microsoft and their allies sealed Atari's fate - Atari hardly gets a mention anymore in history of computing since Windows took over - even though they were so important as a social movement - the symbol of freedom - that kids today still wear shirts with Atari logos on them.
Their idea of Atari is muddied because of the Microsoft propaganda over the years and the harsh treatment of Atari through the media as simply a "games machine". This was propagated by early PC users because of the Atari 8-bit's superior 256 color near VGA graphics and 4-channel digital sound made available for home users in 1979. The same line of thought that led to the statement that no one would need more than 640k of RAM also fostered this braindead idea that superior graphics and sound on a home computer was only good for games. It was part of the scheme designed by IBM and Microsoft to kill the idea of Atari computers (and Apple, too.) It was all about, and is still about, absolute control of people.
The same numbers the Hollerith machine from IBM used on their punch cards to identify concentration camp victims (and to tattoo stamp their punch card numbers on their arms) is alive and well in every PC and is set to run full circle again - when the evil shall be compete and whole.
We need Atari and the ideas behind Atari - back - now. Before it is too late and history repeats itself.
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