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- From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Atari Conference at GEnie 9/9
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 19:56:46 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson) says:
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- >In article <18kvj7INNbu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:
- >>
- >>In a previous article, kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson) says:
- >>
- >>>Good news!!! According to Bill Rehbock at the CIS conference,
- >>>the Falcon030 has passed FCC Class B specifications and they
- >>>are only waiting for the paperwork certification. And people
- >>>thought it would take a few months just for THIS to happen. <grin>
- >>>
- >>
- >>
- >>Ok, who paid off the FCC? :)
- >
- >Not the Tramiels, that's for sure! They wouldn't be able to
- >justify the expense. <grin> Anyway, it also sounded like
- >they still plan on having limited availability of the Falcon030
- >in the U.S. by mid to late October and that they'll only be
- >shipping units to developers between now and then. That wasn't
- >said outright, as far as I know, but it seemed implied.
-
- If I were the Tramiels, I'd ship a shit load of them over to
- Europe and sell them like hotcakes.
-
- I'd ship a couple of them to each of the Atari dealerships
- and have them take orders from October to the beginning of December.
- I would then ship the Falcon's orderd in December in time for
- Christmas.
-
- I'd also get those machines to developers immediately, though,
- I suspect that very few U.S. developers are eager to develop for the
- machine.
-
- This way, everyone is happy.
-
- But to tell you the truth, this Christmas season belongs to the
- Lynx. Next year's Christmas season will belong to the Falcon.
- And 1994's Christmas season will belong to the Jaguar.
-
- I bet Atari will be able to sell a few million Lynx systems and
- around ten million game cards this Christmas if they advertise it
- enough. My gosh, they will have 80 some game cards available.
-
- QUALITY game cards.
-
- >
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