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[included quotes follow my comments]

I also hope that Atari succeeds.  But it's one thing to hope, and
something else again to (as a bunch of people have) get terribly
excited about wild announcements from a company that is in deep
financial trouble.

Especially when that company is headed by Jack Tramiel.  In the years
that Tramiel ran Commodore, Commodore announced a ton of new machines
ranging from the Max-Machine super-video-game to a Z-8000 based
Unix machine.  They demonstrated prototypes of all of these at
the time of announcement.  The only one they ever produced was
the SX-64 "portable C-64".  And Commodore was even making money!

By the way, "seeking 50 million in financing" is not the same as
"getting 50 million in financing".  And Tramiel would never seek
any outside financing if he had any choice.

We can all hope for Atari's recovery, but in the meantime I intend
to keep my feet on the ground and not get excited about new computers
until AFTER they're on the dealer's shelves.  There'll be plenty
of time then.

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> I think that are probably wrong. I read last week that Jack T was seeking
> 50 million in financing. Apparently the machines has already been designed.
> If he managed to find cheap labor and facilities abroad he can likely
> begin production. Let's give him a chance. It is far better to encourage
> people in their business/financial endeavors than to label them
> failures before startings. I hope the ATARI company succeeds.
......
> I spoke to a local dealer on Friday who was at CES. He said that Atari
> was showing a functioning model of the 68000 machine *and* letting 
> people touch it and mess around. Atari does have a little more than
> just talk going for them. It remains to be seen whether they can do
> it at the stated prices, but they have done it in prototype!
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