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From: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SM124 Differences ?
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Date: 10 Aug 88 06:33:32 GMT
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In Info-Atari16 Digest #343, mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole@uunet.uu.net
(Simon Poole) writes:

>In article <8808021217.AA02247@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET
> writes:
  (...)
>>The problem is known. Atari manufactured a whole bunch of these monitors, but
>>refuses to deal with the problem, claiming that it is caused by 'unavoidable
>>parts tolerances'. Any monitor shipped to Atari would be returned unrepaired.

>Was this Atari Germany  or Atari US?  I would be  suprised if somebody
>from Atari  US had said something  like that, but not  at all (in fact
>it's what I expect) if it was Atari Germany.

This, of course, was Atari Germany. And, equally of course, it was precisely
the kind of behaviour anyone expects who has *ever* had dealings with Atari
Germany.(No smiley faces here.)

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