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|    Yeechang Lee to Tristan Miller    |
|    Re: Soviets preferred Atari over Commodo    |
|    19 Aug 20 05:43:39    |
      From: ylee@columbia.edu              Tristan Miller wrote:       > A week later they unexpectedly received a       > reply from the Embassy thanking Epyx for the games but lamenting that       > they couldn't play them because all they had were Atari computers!              Jack Tramiel was born in Poland, and used his connections to get Atari       computers into Eastern Europe in the 1980s.              That said, the embassy likely just happened to purchase Atari       computers in the US as opposed to another brand.              --       geo:37.783333,-122.416667              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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