Re: News tidbits

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From: Todd Burkey
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1987 13:37

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In article <4437@zen.berkeley.edu> c9c-eh@dorothy.Berkeley.EDU (Warner Young (WHY)) writes:
>	Blitter!  ROMs!  According to the salesman at this same store, the
>blitter upgrade will be a motherboard swap for 520 owners.  It may be a
>routine chip attachment for 1040s, but 520s HAVE to have the motherboard
>exchanged.

If so (and Atari doesn't make any provision for all of us who have
done on-board upgrades to one meg...over 3/4 of the ST owners that I
know of in the Twin Cities) then Atari is going to lose a lot of loyal
supporters in this area. Starting with me and most of the local ST
developers and club members.

>	I saw two more CAD packages in the stores:  FirstCAD from Generic
>Software, and Athena II, from I don't remember.  Both are supposed to be

FirstCAD is great, but it has been out since last November...sounds
like your store is a little behind...

  -Todd Burkey
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Subject: Re: News tidbits
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Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 09:37:58 EDT
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