mag2@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Michael A Gorski) (03/31/89)
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? If it is true, I guess Atari finally wants to get rid of their "game machine" image. To me, the key word here is "image". Selling off the game systems and low end computers will NOT change their image. The name Atari is synonymous with games. We all know that they also produce "real computers" but to the non-Atari computer owners, they are just toys. The only way to loose their image is a name change.
meadb@tramp.Colorado.EDU (MEAD BENNETT ROSS) (04/01/89)
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.) | Meadb@tramp.colorado.edu | In this day and age there isn't any | | meadb!tramp!boulder!ncar.... | Such thing as NORMAL. | | or meadb!tramp!boulder | "There's no reason to be afraid, they're | | !sunybcs!rutgers... | just ideas for walls" -Men w/o Hats. |
ajy2208%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (04/01/89)
I __HIGHLY__ doubt the rumour about Coleco purchasing Atari's 8-bit machines is true. This rumour seems to have been an April fools joke posted first to BBSs and then uploaded to the net. The message indicated that Atari sold the 8-bit computer line to Coleco for $50,000. C'mon, that's ridiculous, it's certainly worth a LOT more than that!!! Anyway, the 'press release' as it was called was dated 04/01/89. Albert Yarusso Bitnet: ajy2208@ritvax.bitnet (preffered) Usenet: ajy2208.ritcv.rit.edu
c60c-3ds@web-1b.berkeley.edu (John Kawakami) (04/02/89)
The Atari Coleco thing was an April fools' day joke.
The Atari Coleco thing was an April fools' day joke.
The Atari Coleco thing was an April fools' day joke.
OK?
John Kawakami c60c-3ds@web.berkeley.edu
"Oh it's a good feeling, to know your alive..." - Fred Rogersrjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert allen Jung) (04/02/89)
Nonsense. This "rumor" got started when a wiseacre sent up a "press release"
to CompuServe. Among the other stupid things in the report were
* Atari moves corporate headquarters to Germany
* Sig Hartman is a German
* Atari releases new "FU" supercomputer
Now, why didn't anyone notice that the "release" had a date of 4/1/1989 on
it? Sigh.
--R.J.
B-)
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>The Atari Coleco thing was an April fools' day joke. >The Atari Coleco thing was an April fools' day joke. >The Atari Coleco thing was an April fools' day joke. >OK? > John Kawakami c60c-3ds@web.berkeley.edu Sez you. Wanna see the text of the press release on the subject?