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cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth) writes:

> In <Z9u5wB7w165w@status.gen.nz>, Jon Clarke writes:
> >  Well Atari may not have expanded their machines but the 3rd Party
> >  developers have. 
> ...
> >  - 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
> 
> How many of those can you plug in at once?  How much choice do you have
> if you need one of them?  If you were using a PC or Mac, you've have
> several to choose from... you could (gasp!) pick the best one for the
> amount of money you want to spend.  On the ST, you pick the only one,
> and pay what they're asking for it.
 
 Well it goes both ways. To change cards on the PC you muST remove the 
 case, there goes the warranty and insert the card. Now comes all the 
 hassel like, will it work with OS2, is there a driver for it, will it
 work with my other cards etc etc . 
 
 Just like the ST, except very few ST's applications are inside the case.
 
 Re best for your price. Hey Chris this applies to ALL machines and well
 you know it. A case in point. The async driver/card for the AS400 here
 costs $nzd1200 but hey a clone costs $nzd800. So do I get the best or
 a clone and there is only one made by Big Blue? Har far do we take this?


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