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Started by John Francis
Mon, 13 Jan 1986 23:33
Keeping developers happy
Author: John Francis
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1986 23:33
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1986 23:33
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gaspar@ALMSA-1.ARPA writes (in part)
> Of course there are a number of people, many of them developers, that have
> already bought 520ST's for $799 or $999. If this change in marketing policy by
> Atari is going to work, these people will have to be appeased also. If the
> dealers are going to get a 1 meg ST for the same cost as the 520ST the current
> owners should be provided the upgrade at no, or minimal, cost. And, if a DSDD
> drive is put in the dealers package, current owners should be able to trade up
> to the DSDD drive or in some way be compensated.
A nice idea, but don't hold your breath! As I write I can see the 520ST system
that I bought (for $1400 - I've got both monitors, and a second (DSDD) disk drive).
I would really like to be able to upgrade this to a 1-meg system *without* blowing
my Atari warranty away. I can (just) see Atari offering me this at a reasonable
price (as I have also purchased their development package), but I do not believe
they will do anything about the disk drive.
I have not really got into playing with the ST yet, as I'm still waiting for my
C compiler and all the documentation, but I do have a couple of first impressions
to share with the world.
o The first thing you are told to do is make a backup copy of your system
disk. SO WHY DON'T THEY GIVE YOU A BLANK DISK TO DO IT ON ? (The same
goes for the language disk, if you *really* want to use Atari-LOGO).
o The actual internals of the machine are plenty powerful enough to make
this thing a real computer, not a 'toy'. (This message is being written
on an Apollo workstation. The main CPU is . . . . . a Motorola 68000).
WHY DO I HAVE TO FIND ROOM FOR ALL THOSE STUPID EXTERNAL POWER SUPPLIES ?
I have to find FIVE places to plug everything in, and somewhere to put
the power supplies as well as all the system components. Package the
system like a video game, and people will think it is a video game.
(After all, the converse is true - a well-known company packaged a 8086
like a computer system, and thousands of people believed it really was
a computer system :-)
Re: Keeping developers happy
Author: Felton.PA
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1986 19:19
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1986 19:19
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> o The first thing you are told to do is make a backup copy of your system > disk. SO WHY DON'T THEY GIVE YOU A BLANK DISK TO DO IT ON ? (The same > goes for the language disk, if you *really* want to use Atari-LOGO). I would suggest using the LOGO disk to back up the system disk. :-)
Re: Keeping developers happy
Author: Tim Smith
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1986 02:36
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1986 02:36
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In article <2b5128ea.917@apollo.uucp> johnf@apollo.uucp (John Francis) writes: > > The first thing you are told to do is make a backup copy of your > system disk. SO WHY DON'T THEY GIVE YOU A BLANK DISK TO DO IT ON > ? (The same goes for the language disk, if you *really* want to > use Atari-LOGO). If they were going to give you two disks, it would probably be easier for them to give you two copies of the system disk. -- Tim Smith sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim
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