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From: csc23042@sumax.seattleu.edu (Dave Jorgan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 2.5 million ST's sold worldwide!
Keywords: Atari Asia
Message-ID: <2516@sumax.seattleu.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 22:02:46 GMT
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In article <5330@wucc.waseda.ac.jp> ytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp (Y.Tsuji Y.Tsuji shagaku) writes:
>The only m68k machines ever sold in Japan are cpm68k boards to MSDOS machines
>or X68000 (SHARP's hobby machine). CPM68K has been expensive because they are
>for developers but SHARP's machines have been a great failure: people do not
>buy machines people do not know. As to ATARI, they are the things one usually
>finds in a music shop under dust. ATARI ST is very much like IBM PC here: the
>owners used them before coming to Japan: no reason why they can be sold here.
>Things are very different on 68020 or higher front (Sony's NEWS or SUN's of
>various names). But that is not a comfort for us.




In STart there is a company that appears to be a ST dealer in Tokyo. It is called
Andy's Music. Gives phone numbers, address.... and I have seen this ad running
for a while. One dealer does not market penetration make, I know, but it at
least seems as though they are doing reasonable business, so perhaps it is
not all that grim.......


Dave