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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.atari,net.rumor
Subject: Re: Atari to introduce TT?
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 11:59:40 EST
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In article <4759@alice.UUCP> aer@alice.UucP (D. Rosenberg) writes:
>  	A friend just told me he was expecting Atari to introduce a 
>"TT" line of computers- the "TT" standing for "thirty-two/thirty-two", using
>  ...
>	Anyone else heard of this beast? (Post replies to net.micro.atari,

Jack Tramiel would promise the moon if he thought he could get money for
it.

I haven't heard anything about the "TT", but I do know a bit about the
way Jack does business, so this "TT" promise might just be an
attention-getter.

Look at his two biggest successes: the VIC-20 and the Commodore 64.
Neither are particularly amazing computers. The VIC-20 sold because it
was offered so cheap that nobody could undercut the price (Jack T.
tactic #1). Jack's marketing plan for the C64 was simply that he would
offer "more bytes for the buck". 

I don't think anybody's buying computers on that criterion anymore. Most
consumers want to know: what can I do with it? How has the ST been
doing?
-- 
-Charles