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Mr.Atari meets Mr.Atari !
Yesterday (22 January 2006) we have had the great
pleasure and honour to meet the former Sales Manager from
Atari Benelux in the eighties and beginning of the nineties: Wilfried
(surname not mentioned for privacy).
I had placed a bid on a lot of Atari-items on the
Internet. It said 'from a former employee' but that was all.
Among the items were: a PAL 800!! / a 822 printer new boxed (in the
send-box as well) / several
prototype cartridges, flyers etc. A treasure. I have put some of the pictures below.
So yesterday we received a phonecall from Wilfried that we could come
and collect the items.
When we arrived, we were greeted by him and he gave us his original
business-card.
Also we got from him an original hand-made pin with logo. (right off his
own shirt!) What a start...
He told us many great stories about that he had met Nolan Bushnell on a
Atari party in America,
and Ray Kassar- Atari CEO of Warner Communications - who came to
the Netherlands with his own
private jet and bodyguards,
and that he had met (and recently spoke
to) Jack Tremiel and has been in his house in California.
Wilfried had been with Atari right from the beginning of the
game-console era here in The Netherlands
to the ST era. Back then he was known in his business as " Mr. Atari".
We had a great evening but unfortunately we had to drive home again.
We can't wait to see what we all have got and try it out.
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