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From: blee@plains.UUCP (blee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Some Atari dealers in Canada
Message-ID: <3436@plains.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 90 23:59:41 GMT
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Reply-To: blee@plains.UUCP (Blaine Lee)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <20919@watdragon.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@poppy.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes:
>In article <917@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP> rwilson@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP (Richard Wilson) writes:
>
>>According to my local Atari dealer, he can lose his dealership if he send's
>>machines to the U.S.  Since Canadien Atari computers are not FCC approved, they
>>cannot be sold to the U.S.  Please ask your dealer before posting his address,
>
>Who is asking the dealer to "send" anything.  I think we are talking
>about walk-ins here.  My dealer did not ask if I intend to take
>my machine to the US.  I know of another who may have contributed
>None of these activities are illegal, nor should they endanger the 
>status of a dealership.
>    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
>	ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca	ljdickey@water.BITNET

I must say I agree with Richard on this, in fact if the FCC caught wind of
this I would place my money on them.  IF in fact there is a internal difference
in the US STe (or other models) and someone complains(TV, radio, aircraft...etc
reception) --> I think the FCC will be a knocking on your door real soon.
Also I would guess that the FCC would talk to the border patrol about this
for those occasional random checks.

Just remember it IS illegal and if you are caught expect to loose your
computer.  I would compare it to importing a car from another country
that does not have the same emmisions controls.  Radio wave polution
is on the same order as air, noise, and other polutions; even if we
can't see it, it probably will affect somebody!

I hope in the future Canadian dealers will not sell to Americans,
I believe it IS risky for them.

PS: I may have posted before with a name '(finger me!)', it was put
there to encorage the UNIX command finger(1) not as a insult to anyone.

Blaine Lee
blee @ plains.nodak.edu