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Article #22817Re: re W Magro's posting
From: Jon Clarke
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 11:32
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 11:32
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cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth) writes:
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> You weren't paying much attention to Atari's last two "new" computers,
> were you? MegaSTe and Falcon030 are _barely_ classifiable as expandible
> and upgradable. There is a serious lack of modularity in Atari's
> designs, and they don't seem to keen on fixing that shortcoming. After
> all, they've been listening to us complain about it for _at_least_ seven
> years now.
>
Well Atari may not have expanded their machines but the 3rd Party
developers have.
Chris just stop and think of ...
- Spectre
- Sound cards
- Happy (the orginal)
- All the accelerator cards
- Video cards
- Hard disks
- CD cards
- Rom cards/drives
- and the list goes on and on and on and on
Hmm this resembles the same sort of upgrades you get for the PC to me
Jon Clarke Z*NET Pacific
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!status!jonc Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: re W Magro's posting Message-ID: <Z9u5wB7w165w@status.gen.nz> From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 11:32:34 GMT References: <H.ea.0n1SiCdAPzU@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> Organization: The Z*NET Global News Gateway in Parnell New Zealand. Lines: 39