Jugi Tandon/Commodore/Atari question...

[zektor]

This is odd....I was reading this chronology of Commodore earlier today:

http://www.commodore.ca/history/company/chronology_portcommodore.htm

The very bottom of this page under the header of "Where's Jack Now", there lies a second tidbit from an unknown source claiming that Jack is "Supervising his sons running the company called: Jugi Tandon Systems"

JTS? Was this not the company that Atari ended up selling to (or merging with) after the Jaguar went under? When did Jack's sons acquire JTS? Or did they own it beforehand? Something smells abit fishy, and I am surprised after all of these years I never caught it. Atari was reverse merged with JTS back then as far as I recall, and JTS later sold the Atari division under some suspicious pretenses. I could be wrong here...anybody have any input that I may be missing here? Hmm.

[Ze_ro]

According to Wikipedia, JTS went out of business in early 1999.

--Zero

[Bojay1997]

This is odd....I was reading this chronology of Commodore earlier today:

http://www.commodore.ca/history/company/chronology_portcommodore.htm

The very bottom of this page under the header of "Where's Jack Now", there lies a second tidbit from an unknown source claiming that Jack is "Supervising his sons running the company called: Jugi Tandon Systems"

JTS? Was this not the company that Atari ended up selling to (or merging with) after the Jaguar went under? When did Jack's sons acquire JTS? Or did they own it beforehand? Something smells abit fishy, and I am surprised after all of these years I never caught it. Atari was reverse merged with JTS back then as far as I recall, and JTS later sold the Atari division under some suspicious pretenses. I could be wrong here...anybody have any input that I may be missing here? Hmm.

JTS and Atari engaged in what is called a reverse merger wherein the smaller company ends up acquiring the larger company. It was an attempt to preserve whatever they could of their investment in Atari and essentially JTS which made the Nordic brand of drives closed down completely within a year or two of the merger.

[jjessop]

JTS did indeed represent Jugi Tandon Systems and was a never kept a real secret. I believe JTS was formed in 1995 after Atari shut down most of their operations. My suspecion was they were trying to hang onto the big cash settlement that Sega paid them for some "alledged" patent infringments from old Warner Atari days. They funded their old partner/vendor Jugi and eventually ended up moving JTS to an old vacant bank in downtown Sunnyvale. By 1997 they were pretty much over and done with.