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From: meadb@tramp.Colorado.EDU (MEAD BENNETT ROSS)
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Subject: Re: Atari & Coleco
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Date: 31 Mar 89 16:47:42 GMT
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In article <1772@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> mag2@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Michael A Gorski) writes:
>I just heard that Atari Corp. just sold their 6502 based computers and
>all their game systems to Coleco.
>
>Can anyone verify or shoot down this rumor?
>

I hope that this rumor is untrue.  The fact that I havent heard anything of the
sort doesn't mean a thing, but my father is the presedent of a small but 
rumor consious Atari users group in Los Alamos, and at their meeting last
friday nothing of that sort came out.  If this rumor is true I think that the 
eight bit computers wont last long (look at the Adam and Colecovision), but
will they anyway even if Atari holds on to it?  My father has also tried to
sell various programs in Antic and Analog, but has had three sales in the year
or so he has been selling.  (He has had at least 200, probably more, inquiries
from 7 or 8 adds.)  


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