USA today article of December 30, 1985

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3 total messages Started by John Arrasjid Wed, 01 Jan 1986 17:05

#1876

Author: John Arrasjid
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1986 17:05

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An article in USA today (12/30/85) talked about Atari announcing that the
512k st would be sold in chain stores, and a 1 meg version of the st would
be carried by those stores currently carrying the 520st. Sounds like the 260ST
will be dropped!!?!?!!

Also, it appears the TOS rom chips will be going for about $20 and that they
will be shipped any day now. Gary Tramiel provided this info (TOS chips) to
my boss at a local store.

John Arrasjid                       SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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Re: USA today article of December 30, 1985

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Author: Erik Freed
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1986 03:54

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> An article in USA today (12/30/85) talked about Atari announcing that the
> 512k st would be sold in chain stores, and a 1 meg version of the st would
> be carried by those stores currently carrying the 520st. Sounds like the 260ST
> will be dropped!!?!?!!

Some very reliable sources tell me that there is going to be a 1024ST announced
this month. It will be $999 (monochrome) and have 1meg memory, and a built in
DSDD floppy. Also the $599 20 meg disk. Don't know about when they are
shipping...
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                           Erik James Freed
			   Aurora Systems
			   San Francisco, CA
			   {dual,ptsfa}!aum!freed

Wall St. Journal B.B., January 10, 1986

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Author: Ed Tankus
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1986 17:28

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> > An article in USA today (12/30/85) talked about Atari announcing that the
> > 512k st would be sold in chain stores, and a 1 meg version of the st would
> > be carried by those stores currently carrying the 520st. Sounds like the 260ST
> > will be dropped!!?!?!!
> 
> Some very reliable sources tell me that there is going to be a 1024ST announced
> this month. It will be $999 (monochrome) and have 1meg memory, and a built in
> DSDD floppy. Also the $599 20 meg disk. Don't know about when they are
> shipping...
> -- 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                            Erik James Freed
> 			   Aurora Systems
> 			   San Francisco, CA
> 			   {dual,ptsfa}!aum!freed

As noted in the subject line, today's WSJ-BB said that Atari will begin shipping
the 1040ST to computer stores today. Atari will also introduce a 20 Meg hard 
disk. No prices were quoted for either. 

I would assume that the rest of Erik's info is in the ballpark. I have heard no
mention of any ST the other than the 520, 1040 and the rumored "TT".


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