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   Message 53,123 of 53,866   
   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.   
      
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