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- From: cinnanum@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Philip Crain)
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- Subject: First Report from Dusseldorf !!!!!
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- Date: 22 Aug 92 21:10:25 GMT
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- GEnie/Z*NET NEWS REPORT
- Copyright 1992 by GEnie, ST RoundTables, and Z*Net News Service
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- Z*NET NEWS SERVICE
- 8/21/92
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- FIRST REPORT FROM DUSSELDORF
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- Nathan Potechin of DMC Publishing, Inc., filed this first report of
- the huge Atari show in Germany. The information came via telephone
- from the floor of the Atari Messe ("Fair") in Dusseldorf, Germany, and
- was transcribed by John Nagy of the Z*Net News Service at Nathan's
- request, and has been uploaded by Z*Net to GEnie. This news
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- ATARI AT ATARI MESSE - THE NEW WAVE BEGINS
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- Every year, Atari holds a huge trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany.
- Spanning roughly four football fields of floor space, the show this
- year is similar in size and attendance to last year's event.
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- The announcement of the Falcon 030 to the largest Atari show in the
- world was the first order of business. According to Nathan Potechin,
- "there are Falcons all over the floor of the show, in almost every
- booth." Clearly, the nearly-accurate profile of the coming machine
- offered by most of the Atari media across the last months was not
- missed by the showgoing Atari Messe audience, and the excitement in
- the crowd was high as they saw it firsthand.
-
- Many vendors had new applications that expose the power and features
- that are new on the Falcon 030. DMC Publishing (Calamus) again had
- the largest booth on the floor, spanning 4,000 square feet with about
- 40 people working in it alone. Other large booths included TMS,
- Matrix, 3k, and Maxxon. Many new products were shown, and we will
- report on them in detail in a later release.
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- MARKETING PLANS, PRICE FOR FALCON IN USA
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- The hottest news at 5:00 PM Friday evening in Germany after the close
- of the first day of Atari Messe was the unveiling not only of the
- Falcon, but of the plans that Atari has to market the new machine in
- the USA.
-
- The "base" Falcon 030 will retail for $799 in the USA in a one-
- megabyte configuration. The next option up the scale will be a four-
- megabyte RAM with 65 megabyte hard drive Falcon at $1,399.
-
- Sam Tramiel told dealers and developers at an afternoon meeting that
- the US launch will begin immediately with regional marketing build-
- ups. Individual regions of the USA will be targeted, one at a time,
- with major "dog and pony shows" to both woo and educate computer
- dealers. "Serious" co-op advertising money will be offered to dealers
- who join in the roll-out. Once enough regions are served by an
- operating dealer network, Atari will launch a national advertising
- campaign.
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- Industry observers suggest that this plan will make the most of
- Atari's cash and production resources. By serving a small but growing
- dealer network with product, on-board Falcon dealers can be more
- assured of delivery of product during the build-out stages of the
- plan. Dealers will help and be helped in promotional costs, enabling
- Atari to make a bigger splash in smaller ponds with less of their own
- money, and allowing Atari's resources to go towards increasing
- production of Falcon computers. As production and sales increase, so
- will revenues with which to attack new regions. Meanwhile, Falcon
- specific software will mature and present a solid base for the later
- national marketing efforts.
-
- More details from Germany will be coming later in the weekend. Look
- for more special reports on GEnie, a service of GEnie and the Z*Net
- News Service.
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