When Jack Tramiel left Commodore in January 1984, he started a new company called Tramel Technology with several ex Commodore employees, and his three sons in top executive positions, with the goal of selling a new home computer. When Warner Communications announced on May 8 its intention to sell its Atari division, Tramiel then began negotiating with Warner to obtain Atari’s overseas manufacturing and worldwide distribution network. In July, Tramiel purchased Atari’s consumer division, which included the video game consoles and home computers, and merged it into Tramel Technology, which was then renamed Atari Corporation. The 900 employees of the former consumer division were not included in the sale. Tramiel rehired 100 of
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