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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari's Marketing Approach
Message-ID: <406@gethen.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 04:47:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 04:47:25 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 04:02:13 EST
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Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
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In article <8711301706.AA18559@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>The Atari that controls
>the video game market is no longer the same company as the Atari that 
>controls the ST series.  They are entirely separate entities.

Unless something has happened real recently that I'm not aware of, the
Atari that does the computers is one and the same with the Atari that does
the home video games (2600, 5200, 7800).  The Atari which does the coin-op
video arcade games, like Marble Madness, IS a separate entity, and is
known as Atari Games.  This division came about when Tramiel bought
Atari - he bought the computer and home video sections, but not the
coin-op section, which was subsequently sold to someone else.


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Michael J. Farren      "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
unisoft!gethen!farren   that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.arpa             Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"