Subj : Re: Soviets preferred Atari over Commodore To : Yeechang Lee From : Andreas Kohlbach Date : Wed Aug 19 2020 11:10:04 On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 05:43:39 -0700, Yeechang Lee wrote: > > 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. The British company Memotech had a nice CP/M machine on the market in 1983. Nice looking too, with brushed aluminum case. They struck a deal with the Soviets of 200,000 units. But funding from the British government fell short and Memotech went into receivership. So it stays an obscure computer. Would had been nice to know how the 8-bit market would had developed if the deal was successful. -- Andreas https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/ --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .