RE: AS/400 Heritage

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oddly enough, the management team that ran Atari into the ground was headed
by Jack Tramiel and his sons, who had great success with Commodore in pre
Amiga days.  

I think they operated on principles like "the bill's not due until the
judgement is final."

I used to belong to an Atari users' group.  Because we were about 40 miles
from Atari galactic headquarters in Sunnyvale, we got staff developers and
management people as speakers very often.  The q & a part of the evening
resembled sound off sessions at Common.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: neilp@dpslink.com [mailto:neilp@dpslink.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 2:53 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: AS/400 Heritage
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> Didn't the management team all move to Somers NY  ??
> 
> ;-)
> 
> ...Neil
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> Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com>
> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> 2001/05/04 11:11
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
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>         To:     "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        RE: AS/400 Heritage
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> 
> Atari ST--same story--same processor, same rap as game 
> machine, some cool
> features pcs and macs couldn't touch--except Atari management was even
> worse.
> 
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dwayne Lindner [mailto:Dwayne.Lindner@writ.wesfarmers.com.au]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 7:59 PM
> > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> > Subject: RE: AS/400 Heritage
> >
> /* Big Snip                                                     */
> > However it does severely lack a marketing push from IBM.  In
> > this respects
> > the iSeries reminds me of another fantastic computer.
> >
> > The Commodore Amiga.
> >
> > <SIGH>
> >
> >
> > Dwayne Lindner
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