Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!vsnyder From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari earnings Message-ID: <1991Apr3.230110.16779@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 3 Apr 91 23:01:10 GMT References: <1991Mar11.222942.12560@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 19 In article steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes: > >I saw a story on the Reuter business newswire that said Atari Corp. is >negotiating with Israel to establish a $150 million computer factory. >Israel is being asked to supply $100 million or so in loan guarantees >for Israeli component plants. Apparently if Atari assembles machines in >Israel using a sufficient level of Israeli-made components, the machines >can be shipped duty-free to the European Community. The production >capacity would replace plants currently operating in Taiwan. Just the opposite of what USDOD indirectly did to Atari here: When Inmos set up their plant in Colorado springs to make transputers, which Atari would have bought to put into ATWs, DOD wouldn't let Inmos re-export T-400's and T-800's to UK, even though they were already being manufactured in UK! -- vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov ames!elroy!jato!vsnyder vsnyder@jato.uucp