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From: dwh@ataritx.uucp (Dave Hanna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FCC and the Atari
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.153835.10822@ataritx.uucp>
Date: 12 Feb 91 15:38:35 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.061309.6487@ns.network.com>
Reply-To: dwh@ataritx.UUCP (Dave Hanna)
Organization: Atari Microsytems Corp., Dallas
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In article <1991Feb11.061309.6487@ns.network.com> logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan) writes:
|
|I was recently in a class in which RFI, or EMI as they now call it,
|was the subject.  During the class, the instructor claimed that 
|EMI restrictions were tougher in European countries such as Germany
|than they are here in the USA.  He also claimed that Canadian rules
|were essentially the same as in the USA except that there was more
|paperwork involved in the USA.
|
|So my question -- is this constant delay for FCC approval a bogus
|excuse?  If EMI standars are tougher in countries where new Atari
|equipment shows up first, shouldn't it be a cake walk to get FCC
|approval here?  Having to re-engineer equipment to meet weaker
|standards seems unlikely :-)

All I can say is, No, it's not a bogus excuse.
>- John Logajan @ Network Systems; 7600 Boone Ave; Brooklyn Park, MN 55428


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