menton@v5130b.DECnet ("V5130B::MENTON") (09/20/86)
Did I hear right, on the cable TV show "Computer Chronicles" on 9/20/86? Atari is laying off people, down from 7,000 not long ago, to 1,000 in the near future? Because they LOST $500 million (!) last year ?? Bob Menton MENTON@NRL-ACOUSTICS ------
jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (09/21/86)
Could they have gotten them mixed up with Commodore Business Machines? -John S.
rb@cci632.UUCP (Rex Ballard) (09/22/86)
In article <8609201633.AA06324@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> "V5130B::MENTON" <menton@v5130b.decnet> writes: >Did I hear right, on the cable TV show "Computer Chronicles" on 9/20/86? >Atari is laying off people, down from 7,000 not long ago, to 1,000 in the >near future? Because they LOST $500 million (!) last year ?? > Bob Menton > MENTON@NRL-ACOUSTICS These numbers do sound familiar. They sound like what occurred when Mr. Tramael took over ATARI from Warner. When he took over, there were about 7000, many of them in marketing. Within a few months, there were only a hand full of marketing people, a core engineering staff (mostly working on the ST), and the manufacturing facilities were all put under automation. Atari did lose $500 million the year it was sold to Mr. T., in fact that was one of it's better years. Since the sale, Atari has not only been doing well in the sales, but it may be showing a profit for the first time since the release of the 800. Is it possible that this show was a repeat? Ironically, Atari has been one of the few PC companies that has shown improvement this year (1986). Even grand old IBM has been feeling the Atari bite of the market. Just out of curiosity, what is the ticker symbol for Atari? It used to be part of Warner Communications, but appears to be a separate company now?
turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel) (09/23/86)
> > Did I hear right, on the cable TV show "Computer Chronicles" on 9/20/86? > Atari is laying off people, down from 7,000 not long ago, to 1,000 in the > near future? Because they LOST $500 million (!) last year ?? > Bob Menton > MENTON@NRL-ACOUSTICS > > ------ I think you've been doing the time warp once too often, first which atari ? games or corp ? and second both atari's (to the best of my knowledge) have been well below the 1,000 employee mark for years now. for further reading, you might want to check out the posting on atari corp going public.... -- ---- It aint life that gets me down, it's gravity Name: James M. Turner Mail: Imagen Corp. 2650 San Tomas Expressway, P.O. Box 58101 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8101 AT&T: (408) 986-9400 UUCP: ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!imagen!turner CompuServe: 76327,1575 GEnie : D-ARCANGEL
neil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris) (09/24/86)
In article <8609201633.AA06324@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, menton@v5130b.DECnet ("V5130B::MENTON") writes: > Did I hear right, on the cable TV show "Computer Chronicles" on 9/20/86? > Atari is laying off people, down from 7,000 not long ago, to 1,000 in the > near future? Because they LOST $500 million (!) last year ?? OLD NEWS! This is the story from 1984! Did you pick up a time warped TV signal? We have about 1,000 employees worldwide at the moment, and our financial performance is available from any PaineWebber office. -- --->Neil @ Atari ...{hoptoad, lll-lcc, pyramid, imagen, sun}!atari!neil BIX: neilharris CIS: 70007,1135 Delphi: NEILHARRIS GENIE: nharris WELL: neil Atari Corp. BBS 408-745-5308 US Mail: Atari Corp. 1196 Borregas Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 "I'm a 20th century man but I don't want to die here." -- Ray Davies