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- From: pete@introl.com (Pete Ikusz)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video
- Subject: Re: Rare Game (Atari I think)
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:30:08 -0600
- Organization: Introl Corp.
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- Message-ID: <1halp0INN1905@introl.introl.com>
- References: <1992Dec20.235435.15714@cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Dec21.141534.9292@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <1992Dec23.191002.12618@ntg.com>
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- In article <1992Dec23.191002.12618@ntg.com> ewhac@ntg.com (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
- > Irving Gould, Chairman of the Board of Commodore, purchased Amiga
- >primarily to piss off Jack Tramiel, who left his employ to purchase and run
- >Atari. Tramiel responded by developing and releasing the Atari-ST system to
- >the market before the Amiga was released. (The market confusion resulting
- >from the misleading Atari ads and the total lack of Amiga ads probably hurt
-
- NOTE: I worked in computer sales back during the release of the Amiga and ST,
- and was involved in selling both machines.
-
- Hmmm, I never saw any mis-leading ads. All the tables prices and general
- comparisons were accurate. (I am not an Atari fanatic either) Their ads,
- release date and planning(time to market) of the product were, IMHO, exceptional.
- (Too bad they lost that efficiency during the late 80's)
-
- Two things that hurt Amiga initially were its price, and Atari's hefty initial
- advertizing. They had magazine ads almost everywhere initially. Look at
- the back of a "Compute" rag from late '85.
-
- -Pete
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