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From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: wild rumor -- atari PC clone
Message-ID: <1139@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 02:23:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 16 02:23:47 1987
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Reply-To: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
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I just found the follwing info on my tour of our local fido board:

It is rumored that the new Atari PC clones don't exist.  This
information originally appeared on compuserve.  Apparently (remember,
this is ONLY a rumor) Atari showed a PC clone at CES to steal the
thunder of Commodore's introduction of the PC-10, but don't intend to
actually produce one.

To tell you the truth, I wouldn't be surprised if it was true.
Tramiel has a habit of making wild product announcements to stave off
his competitors, only to deliver the actual product much, much later.
Remember the blitter chip for the ST's that atari announced a year ago?
(I remember reading the byte article talking about it this time last
year)  They haven't seen it yet (though atari is talking april for a
delivery date.)  Same story for the Amy sound chip.

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