🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1198@ptsfa.UUCP>, jmc@ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin) writes:
> In the March BYTE, there is an article on the 1040ST which mentions 
> that at some point there will be a socket in the 1040 motherboard for 
> a graphics chip followed at some time later with an actual chip to go 
> into the socket. I don't know about anyone else, but if it will cost 
> me a lot of money to exchange my motherboard for one with a socket or 
> if I don't know how much it will cost to upgrade then I'll wait a few 
> months (or more) to get the real thing. 

The 1040ST will NOT have a graphics chip.  A chip under development should
appear in a more costly computer later this year -- a new model.

However, we are also developing an add-on board for the 1040ST to adapt it
when the new chip is out.  The cost of this add-on is expected to be similar
to the differential between the 1040ST and the new model.

No word on the adaptability of the 520ST to this chip -- but my guess
<unofficially> is that it will be equivalent to adapting a 1040ST.

--->Neil @ Atari