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Article #23480Re: Falcon & Jaguar news
From: Stephen Jacobs
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:57
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:57
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In article <19930125.081506.274@almaden.ibm.com> evilandi@vnet.ibm.com (Andrew Oakley) writes:
> Page 374 of Teletext On 3 (the data service provided by the UK's ITV
>television network) today features a brief interview with an Atari UK
>spokescreature.
Anyone know who, exactly? As we've argued over before, it's important
to know who said something to know how seriously to take it.
> The Jaguar was said to be nearly ready; it is a cartridge console with
>custom graphics & sound chips, and will sell for UKP100-200 (USD150-300).
>A summer/autumn 1993 launch is expected.
This looks like something that should be Atari's #1 survival priority.
Any home product ought to be in stock for Christmas, but for a game
machine it's ultimately critical. That pretty well means launch no later
than Sept. 1, absolutely drop dead otherwise.
Steve saj@chinet.chi.il.us
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!mcdchg!chinet!saj From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) Subject: Re: Falcon & Jaguar news Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:57:30 GMT Message-ID: <C1Guvw.A8n@chinet.chi.il.us> Summary: One can only hope Keywords: Jaguar timing References: <19930125.081506.274@almaden.ibm.com> Lines: 18