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		bane on Sept 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Secrets” about the consumer audio business you ma... Ancient history, but the way Apple skirted around FCC regulations for the Apple II while Atari got bogged down in expensive remediations for their 400/800 systems that added to the BOM is an interesting business study.

gregsadetsky on Sept 14, 2022 [–]

Fascinating and didn't know about this, thanks!

This goes into the Apple/Atari/FCC story a bit (search for FCC):

https://www.fastcompany.com/90432140/how-atari-took-on-apple...

jamiek88 on Sept 14, 2022 | [–]

They used a 3rd party dongle to save y’all a click.

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