Re: Jack Tramiel failed to save Atari.

On Oct 30, 1:03 am, "winston19842...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<winston19842...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Umm - the bit about TI-94?
> Sure you mean the TI-99/4A...
> It was out in 1979 as the TI-99/4, the 4A came out in '81, so was a
> contem****ary of the Vic-20.

Yeah you're right, it was the TI-99/4A.  Just forgot what it was
called and did a sloppy look up so my bad. :)

> Commodore suckered TI in on doing
> themselves in by setting up a price-war against a lesser machine that
> was produced more cheaply...

Yep that's so true.  I'm surprised that the home computer market
didn't crash like the video game one in '83-'84.  The 8-bit ones were
used as game machines for a while till the NES came out (except in
Europe).