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From: jansen@atari.UUCP (Mark O. Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari ST 1040 versus Mega 2
Message-ID: <1624@atari.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 23:32:47 GMT
References: <5125@umd5.umd.edu>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <5125@umd5.umd.edu>, wls@suns.UMD.EDU (William L. Sebok) says:
>
> I am fairly new reader of this group and have a dumb basic question:  I am
> considering buying an Atari ST.  How much do I gain by spending the extra
> money to purchase a Mega 2 rather than an ST 1040, especially since I am not
> sure that I can afford the difference?  I am aware of 1) an extra meg. of
> memory 2) a blitter chip.  For example, what fraction of software won't run
> without the extra memory or how necessary is the blitter chip?
> 
> My intended use for this machine is 1) music and 2) a bit of word processing.
...

Memory is a nice thing to have, and will give you more options, like if
you want to edit big samples or something.

The Mega's keyboard has a nicer "feel", so if you're a touch-typist,
you may find it more to your liking.  Since it's detached, you can put the
computer out of the way and just have the keyboard and monitor in front of
you.

The BLiTTER is a nice thing to have, and you may find the expansion connector
handy later for a big screen monitor, or math coprocessor, or whatever.

There isn't too much that won't run on a 1040ST in my experience; there are a
lot of them out there.

Hope this helped.


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