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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (750782)11/1/2013 5:01:32 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1576439
 
Mindmeld, thanks for the article. It was a wonderful trip down memory lane.

Here's a nice quote from it:
A Keynesian approach in 1983 might have the government buy all those E.T. copies with borrowed money, cheapened by an early appearance of Greenspanism, to "step in" for the demand "shock."
How about the more simple solution, which would have been to bailout Atari? Think about how many jobs that would have "created or saved." Think about how that would have saved the American video game industry and kept us competitive with the Japanese competition from Nintendo?

By the way, I remember visiting Atari HQ around 1995. That was when they were trying to market their now-failed "64-bit" Jaguar game system. I visited there because I grew up programming on my Atari 800XL home computer. I also subscribed to Antic magazine, which was based in San Francisco, and it became the center of my uber-geek childhood.

Now I go back to the same street in Sunnyvale, and there is absolutely no hint that Atari ever existed there. Pretty sad.

Tenchusatsu
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