Subj : Re: Soviets preferred Atari over Commodore
To   : Tristan Miller
From : Yeechang Lee
Date : Wed Aug 19 2020 05:43 am

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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