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Twenty years ago today, Atari ceased to exist as an independent private company: "On Tuesday, July 30, 1996, Atari Corporation hosts a special meeting of stockholders in the offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. in Palo Alto, California. The meeting, said to have taken about four to six minutes formally, was to vote on the merger between Atari Corporation and JTS Corporation ..."
- July 30, 2016
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2. jaybird3rd
  
  (from ICWhen.com)
  
  July 30, 2016
3. GoldLeader
  
  Interesting...JTSAge does not have the same ring to it...
  
  July 30, 2016
4. jaybird3rd
  
  The "merger" with JTS lasted less than two years; JTS sold the Atari assets to Hasbro in March 1998 for a paltry $5M and went bankrupt soon afterward. That began the long, sad history of the Atari properties being passed around from one owner to the next.
  
  July 30, 2016