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Re: ISO, Atari Corporate History material

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From: Michael Olin
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:07
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01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:

>If you want to criticize Jack Tramiel for not running the company in a
>'perfect' manner, you probably can,

Thank you.  That's what I did.  The Tramiels are Atari's biggest obstacle,
bar none.  Sam is clearly a pathological liar, as you'll recall he stated
he had seen the production line spewing Falcons back in September (?) yet
today they're finding out these 3-month-old machines are defective???

>Also, as far as the microcomputer market is concerned, I don't think there is
>_that) teremendous of a difference between Atari's future and IBM's.  (The key

I don't really give a flip if IBM folds or not.  It's irrelevant to the
state of Atari.  The current state of Atari is directly attributable to
the state of Atari's management, and no amount of smoke screening is
gonna hide that.  Of course, the people at Forbes were probably mis-
informed...

>This will make Atari, Apple, and IBM much more competitive with each other.  I

If you think Atari is EVER gonna compete with IBM, then I have some prime
development property in Florida I'd like to sell you.
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From: molin@ptb.cl.msu.edu (Michael Olin)
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Subject: Re: ISO, Atari Corporate History material
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Date: 23 Jan 93 02:07:31 GMT
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