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From: hmm@laura.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: New Atari 68030 Machines
Message-ID: <1570@laura.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 11:29:59 GMT
References: <785@madnix.UUCP> <1815@ethz.UUCP>
Reply-To: hmm@laura.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Organization: Universitaet Dortmund
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Keywords: Atari 68030 Unix

Info from the press show yesterday evening:

TT comes with 2 meg of RAM, 30 meg disk, color monitor for about 6500 DM
including VAT.  I think the Dollar is currently at 1.97, so it should be
about $ 3250 in the US, probably less as the machine has to compete with
Macs which are a lot cheaper in the US than they are here...

Info from the fair later that evening:

The TTs had a crash arrival in Germany.  Some braindead Lufthansa workers
dropped them from 2 meters to the hard ground.  Most chips decided not
to stay in their sockets, at least one hard disk had a head crash...
Anyway, Leonard and some other guys were able to fix at least some of the
machines, and we could try some software on the box that evening.  It did
not run on the first try since we did something unclean with memory
allocation that does not work on the TT, but we fixed it during the night
and the software (Smalltalk-80) should run now at the fair (I'm not there
because I've got a hurting back :-( )  Anyway, I think I could like the box
(except for the design, which is at least extravagant)...

	Hans-Martin
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