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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC Ditto II availability
Summary: MS-DOS and multi-tasking too!
Message-ID: <1989Aug3.235830.5785@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 3 Aug 89 23:58:30 GMT
References: <8908021825.AA05215@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <8908021825.AA05215@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes:
>Avant Garde has stopped taking calls (only an answering machine comes on the
>line and it asks users to hang in there). I use the ST to teach novices how
>to use PCs, STs and MACs and I was counting on Ditto II to speed up
>demos (it was painful to use Ditto last time) and I was REALLY counting
>on GCR to wow the gang with MAC compatibility (GCR is late too). My info is
>both products will not be out until LATE August or September. NUTS!!!!!!

I have the original PC Ditto and have also been waiting.  But when I saw
an ad in Computer Shopper for NEC Multispeeds for $650 U.S. I decided
that here was a slightly more expensive way to get full MS-DOS
compatibility with two disk drives and perfect multitasking (I can run
both DOS and TOS applications at the same time with no degradation!).
-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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