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From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Glendale Conference Impressions
Message-ID: <1853@mwca.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 91 17:41:36 GMT
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References: <2610@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> <12733@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <2623@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> <1991May1.180512.2572@cs.ucla.edu>
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In article <1991May1.180512.2572@cs.ucla.edu> stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney) writes:
`In article <2623@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> plinio@babbage.seas.ucla.edu (Plinio Barbeito) writes:
``In article <12733@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> kiki@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jack W. Wine) writes:
``>>plinio@curtiss.seas.ucla.edu (Plinio Barbeito/) writes:
``>This is really puzzling news!  If Atari built a factory in Israel, it can't 
``>possibly be dedicated to only floppy controller chip production...
``
``Sorry to have implied that.  I don't know if it will be dedicated to
``that sole purpose.  That's all that Bob mentioned about it, though.
`
`I didn't think he said it would be a factory.  Sounded to me like they had
`hired people to reverse engineer the WD1772 and do a layout for one that
`would run faster.

Both the San Jose Mercury News and the Jewish Bulletin reported that Atari
and the Israeli government are negotiating (close but nothing signed yet)
for Atari to open a manufacturing plant in Israel, with significant incentive
(financial) from the Israeli government, who are hoping to start a high-tech
business park.  The plant would apparently produce most types of Atari hard-
ware (though I believe the Singapore plant would remain) and would give
(again, I'm not positive) Atari major advantages in dealing with the EC.
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