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Megabytes,Inc is the company (located in Texas) that will market the 16 Mhz
CPU upgrade to the Atari ST computers. Megabytes has  toll free 800 phone

800-255-5786

I called Megabytes this week to ask about the availablity of the 16 MHz upgrade
and also of an expansion cabinet for the Mega STs. I was told that there are
diffiuculities in producing the 16 MHZ upgrade and that there is no firm
release date. I was also told that the guy designing the upgrade has postponed
his Mega ST expansion cabinet until after the release of the 16 MHz upgrade.

So, it looks like there is no 16 MHz upgrade in the near future, and that there
may never be an expansion cabinet for the Mega STs.

FLAME ON HIGH!!!!!

The lack of an expansion cabinet for the high end business comnputers (i.e. the
Mega ST2/4) is a severe problem given Atari's replacement policy. If you add the
extra 2 megabytes of RAM to a Meag ST2 and then have a need to send your MST2
back to Atari for repair, you WILL receive a stock MST2 w/o the full 4 megs of
RAM. This is especially true now that Atari has made MST2 motherboards w/o the
aditional traces for the extra 2 megs of RAM.

Atari needs to enhance the Mega ST by releasing an Atari offically sanctioned
expansion cabinet. The cabinet should allow for up to 8 megabytes of additional
RAM (making a possible of 12 megs on a MST4 system), more serial i/o ports,
the math co-processor chip, enhanced video boards, and maybe even a local
are network board.

The release of such an offical Mega expansion cabinet would legitize the Atari
computers as 'REAL WORLD' computers. I don't understnad why Atari hasn't done
more to promote such a product. It is sorely needed.

FLAME SMOLDERING BUT SLOWLY DYING OUT!!!!

Richard (Atarian forever) Covert