In the print-shop case, the Westminster police and the U.S. Customs Service arrested 15 men and seized an industrial printing press, a shrink-wrap machine and crate upon crate of illegitimate Windows 95 documentation.
More important than the timing of the launch, Goldman Sachs forecaster Yuji Fujimori told The Associated Press, is the success of the new machine when it goes on sale, including pricing and game software lineup.
In the days that followed, a constant stream of reports filed by The Associated Press turned Carter into a semi-battlefield celebrity -- a combination of deadly fighting machine, insightful commentator and quipster.