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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

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isw wrote:
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Sylvia Else wrote:

--snippety-snip--

I'm left wondering what exactly was the *real* problem that PAL was
intended to fix.

Political. The Europeans didn't want US companies selling sets there.

Didn't stop the Japanese, etc.

But *they* wanted to sell sets *here*.

Isaac