7800 Historical Notes:
 

        In the summer of 1984 the first 5,000 Atari 7800's had just been built in the new El Paso assembly plant.   The production line manager, Brad Saville was eager to meet with Jack Tramiel to show him the new flagship Atari video game console.   The meeting ended abruptly as Jack Tramiel was quoted "Get your pollution out of here!   We make computers now and we don't want your garbage."   The line manager was fired 2 days later.

        About 8-9 months later the line manager received a phone call from Atari asking him as to the whereabouts of the die molds for the Atari 7800.   The ex-line manager responded that he did in fact know where they were and for $50/hour for about 200 to 300 hours of his time he would remember where they were and find them.    The Atari Corp. representative who called was infuriated and informed the former production line manager that Atari's lawyers would be in contact with him.    He never heard from Atari again.
 
 

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