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# Some micros may die

It looks a little like the situation in the U.S., where the price war at the cheap end of the market has meant that both Texas Instruments and Atari computer operations are said to be running at a loss and sales of Times Sinclair machines have been sliding. The T/S problems led Sir Clive Sinclair to state in his chairman’s report detailing the annual results of Sinclair Research that it has resulted in “much lower sales volume in money terms than we expected.”