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Article #1919Re: FINANCIAL HEALTH OF ATARI
From: LocklearLB
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1986 16:12
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1986 16:12
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In article <8609212031.AA20135@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, menton@v5130b.DECnet.UUCP writes: > > Re my earlier posting, mentioning a "Computer Chronicles" cable TV > show in which the financial health of Atari was seriously questioned: > either they meant 'Commodore', as my friend John Sangster suggested, or > as C-3PO would put it, "Old data" (I hope - I only caught the last few > minutes of the show, and it may have been 1 1/2 years old! > Bob Menton > MENTON@NRL-ACOUSTICS > > ------ I am pretty sure that this was old data. Atari layed off many of their workers when they were owned by Warner. This was due to shifting much of the production of their video games to offshore facilities. I haven't heard of any layoffs since Jack has owned the company. Barry Locklear
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!qantel!ihnp4!drutx!druhi!lbl From: lbl@druhi.UUCP (LocklearLB) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: FINANCIAL HEALTH OF ATARI Message-ID: <1037@druhi.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 12:12:41 EDT Article-I.D.: druhi.1037 Posted: Mon Sep 22 12:12:41 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 22:22:41 EDT References: <8609212031.AA20135@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: AT&T Information System Labs, Denver, Co Lines: 18