Wow - this brings back memories... When I was an undergrad, I took a summer job at Perihelion writing demos for the ATW. From what I recall, things weren't go

Wow - this brings back memories... When I was an undergrad, I took a summer job at Perihelion writing demos for the ATW. From what I recall, things weren't going great, and most of the staff was grumbling about the Atari side of the machine. Since Atari was where the latest funding had come from, there was a strong desire by management to show how the Atari hardware (display, disk interface, etc) was essential to the whole set-up. Whereas from an engineering point of view the Atari front-end was pretty much dead weight (vs. the Transputers that hung off the back). Less than a year later, Perihelion went into liquidation, and a friend and I bought the contents of the building (boxes like 'Misc Electronics #14' and 'Papers #5'). We spent the following summer holidays using the customer list (i.e. the Papers) to flog the remaining Transputers (in the Misc Electronics)... Fun (though slightly morbid) times!