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From: george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart)
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Subject: Re: Atari 520ST
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 08:43:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 08:43:46 1985
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>   By the way, has anyone got any ideas why it's being released in Canada
> more than a month before the US release?  Has Canada been particularly good
> to Atari in the past?  Did Jack Tramiel have a thorn pulled out of his foot
> by a Canadian when he was but a youth?  Or is Canada just one big beta test
> site?
> 

Tramiel (as far as I know) IS a Canadian.  He started Commodore Computers
here in Toronto and ran it for many years (although Commodore is now
incorporated somewhere in the Caribbean for tax reasons).

By the way, does anybody know if the 520ST can be networked?
At that price, it would make quite a workstation.

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Regards,

George Hart, Computer X Canada Ltd.
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