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From: grahamr@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari no-support?/In defense of
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Date: 28 Mar 88 10:30:00 GMT
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>I was at Hannover last week, and would contest the above most strongly.
>Jack Tramiel's public statement at the Press Conference was almost
>entirely in regard to DRAM issues. And he made a very strong point,
>which received immediate applause, that "Atari will not increase prices
>on account of the inflated DRAM costs. If that means we only make $55M
>this year instead of $57M, so be it." I paraphrase considerably, but
>nonetheless his message was clear.

Is this serious??
In the U.K Atari have already announced price rises on all ST's because 
of the DRAM shortage. The 520 & 1040 have both risen by 100 pounds and 
the mega ST's by fifty pounds.

Graham