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   From: wildstar128@hotmail.com   
      
   I correct myself:   
      
   Jack's sons were Sam, Leonard and Garry. I don't get where Ted came in. Oh   
   well.   
      
   "Wildstar"  wrote in message   
   news:P%9Zi.388$te.183@newsfe06.lga...   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >  wrote in message   
   > news:1194628519.917714.180530@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...   
   >> 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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