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From: ian@utcs.UUCP (Ian F. Darwin)
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Subject: Re: Atari 520ST
Message-ID: <652@utcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-May-85 16:55:34 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 16:55:34 1985
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Summary:  520ST a Canada-Firster due to dealers

In article <587@mnetor.UUCP> george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart) writes:
>>   By the way, has anyone got any ideas why it's being released in Canada
>> more than a month before the US release?  
>
>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).

The theory espoused by a local magazine (was it Computing Canada
or Software Canada) is that Canada gets the 520ST first because
Apple's penetration of the dealer network is much stronger in
the U.S.A. than it is in Canada.  Observation confirms this:
there are many Commodore dealers here in Toronto; many of
them Commodore-only dealers who don't even carry dust covers
for anybody else's machines.
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