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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The TT isn't late!
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Date: 1 Jun 90 13:39:00 GMT
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In article <395848@neabbs.UUCP> marclaan@neabbs.UUCP (MARC LAAN) writes:
>TT will be presented to the press here in Holland at june 7th, at
>Atari office. Production starts same month in Taiwan. First machines
>will be flown in end of month. Regular sales in August, that is: in
>Holland.

Ahh, the first Hard Dates!  Are these Official Atari Dates?  In other words,
I can mark "TT freely available somewhere in Europe" on August 31st (I'm
being generous) of my calendar, and when August 31st rolls around I won't
hear, "Awaiting FCC approval", "They're on the boat from Taiwan", "Shortage
of gloobenfloogle chips", or any other sentences prefaced with "Sorry"?
Household members throughout Europe (or Holland, at any rate) really will
be saving their desktops on shiny new '030 Atari machines come September?

> First machines ofcourse are handmade models. Regular
>shipments are massproduction.

This sounds SOOOOOO familiar (anyone remember what the original ST
introduction was like?).  Perhaps we should have a contest: Who can
come closest to guessing the number of mother-board revisions the TT
will undergo within a year of its introduction?

Okay, it's Friday & sunny; I should lighten up...

> Price is not coming down before fall.

So, how much?  (We geocentric Americans would like a dollar figure,
naturally.  Or, at least a scale-factor from your currency... :-)

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