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- From: mbernar@erenj.com (Marcelino Bernardo)
- Subject: Re: NEWSFLASH : FALCON RELEASED
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- References: <1993Jan26.164054.18600@westminster.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.131541.7755@ugle.unit.no> <1k6b88INN7kd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:59:37 GMT
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- In article <1k6b88INN7kd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
- (Len Stys) wrote:
- >
- >
- > In a previous article, lmvec@westminster.ac.uk (William Hargreaves) says:
- >
- > >stigvi@Lise.Unit.NO (Stig Vidar Hovland) writes:
- > >: In article <jorngh.366.727480750@dhhalden.no>, jorngh@dhhalden.no (JORN GUNNAR HALONEN) writes:
- > >: >
- > >: > Yeah, you read right ! Two Falcons were actually released
- > >: > in UK yesterday, it was supposed to be three but one machine
- > >: > was D.O.A. The UK Atari manager was nevertheless pleased and
- > >: > stated that this proves Atari's dedication to the market. He
- > >: > also gave hopes of five (yes five !) new machines in the next
- > >: > few months, and an additional 30 (!) cute beasts if he managed
- > >: > to sell his flat in south London. The production barracks in
- > >: > Iraq is currently working in high gear too keep up with the
- > >: ^^^^
- > >: > demands.
- > >: >
- > >: > And a last thing, this is a rumour. It may not be entirely true.
- > >: >
- > >:
- > >: If UN and USA could stop bombing these barracks, we probably would see
- > >: more Falcons in the (near) future.
- > >:
- > >
- > >In that case, BOMBS AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- >
- >
- > I ___HEARD___ that the factory that the United Nations thought were making
- > nuclear weapons were ACTUALLY making Falcon030 computers.
- >
- > Since it was targeted by the U.S. and DESTROYED, we will have to wait
- > another six months for Falcons.
- >
- > I believe I heard a represenative from Iraq saying that they will "rebuild"
- > this factory, however.
- >
-
- I believe you were slightly misinformed. The factory was just making cheap
- Falcon decoys.:-) This was a Tramiel strategy to mislead Commodore.
-
- Marcelino
- mbernar@erenj.com
-