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In article <822@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>, obryan@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Mark O'Bryan) writes:
> 
> According to Sam Tramiel in a recent issue of STart magazine, there are
> almost 1.5 million worldwide, and almost 200,000 in the U.S.  I don't
> know how close "almost" means, but this is what he reported.
> -- 
> Mark T. O'Bryan                 Internet:  obryan@gumby.cc.wmich.edu
> Western Michigan University
> Kalamazoo, MI  49008

	In the same interview ST said that the Stacy and the Portfolio would
be available by the end of June. But, good old Sam didn't say which June!!
And as this is the end of August already, Sam must have meant that they would
be out by 1990 or maybe 1991.

	So, I don't believe anything that the Tramiels @Atari say, either
publicly or privately. I think the Tramiels get a big kick out of announcing
vaporware!! My local Atari store has NO idea of when the new Atari hardware
will be available, but they don't expect to see anything before Christmas!!
And that includes TOS 1.4 as well!!

	So, I don't believe that Atari has sold 1.5 million STs world wide.
Unless you include those stripped down 520STs (you know 1/m of RAM, no monitor,
etc.) that Atari just tried (unsuccessfully) to dump through the Price Club
stores.

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