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   From: wildstar128@hotmail.com   
      
   Actually, during the 1986-1989 era, it did. Then it was handed to his sons.   
   Don't confuse Jack with Leonard or Ted or any of his sons.   
      
   Jack didn't have the same feelings for Atari as Commodore. It wasn't "his   
   child'.   
      
   Good businessman tries to cut the expenditures as much as possible. Reduce   
   the bills or even delay them until the revenues comes in is the norm.   
   Commodore put alot of money in advertising in the 80s. Even with the mass   
   number of units sold, there was huge expenditures and Commodore was only   
   pulling in net profits under $1 Billion. Commodore was putting out huge   
   sales and pushing the envelope of Commodore's production capacity. Don't   
   want to start counting how many 1541 "computers" - I mean disk drives.   
      
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   > On Oct 23, 9:03 pm, jt august  wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >>  "Sam Gillett"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > Within two years, Jack had turned Atari   
   >> > around and Atari was making a profit again.   
   >>   
   >> Atari made a profit under Tramiel?   
   >   
   > Sure!  As any "good" businessman will tell you, turning a profit is   
   > easy when you refuse to pay most of the bills :)   
   >   
      
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