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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Lyco Computer
Summary: Lyco "Illegal" computers
Message-ID: <47@obie.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 88 15:52:43 GMT
References: <1435@pixar.UUCP> <8010@eddie.MIT.EDU> <22558@brunix.UUCP>
Organization: UinTech, Layton, UT
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In article <22558@brunix.UUCP>, rjd@nancy (Rob Demillo) writes:
> Well, sources (from within Lyco and other mail order houses)
> tell us that Lyco had been getting its STs "illegally."
> What does "illegally" mean? Your guess is as good as mine. 

Rumor has it that Lyco and CMO were buying "bad" STs from Atari,
ostensibly for spare parts, and then doing whatever it took to make
them run enough to sell them.  You pop off the cover and the RF shield
and there are Atari Q/C "REJECTED" stickers all over the place.  If
Atari shut them down from doing this, it's one of the BEST things I've
heard of Atari Corp. doing in quite some time.


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