Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!aplcen!jhunix!dat_08
From: dat_08@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Jared Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atarifest in Va.
Summary: more info
Keywords: AtariFest, STacy
Message-ID: <2829@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 8 Oct 89 01:42:03 GMT
References: <2824@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: dat_08@jhunix.UUCP (Jared Brennan)
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Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <2824@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_bac@jhunix.UUCP (Ajay Choudhri) writes:
>Just got back from atarifest at fairfax high school in Va,
>The stacy he [Dave Small] had, had a 40meg HD and a label 
>"STACYA".
 ^^^^^^^
Actually, "STacy4" was on the label.  4Mbytes!
Yow!  Nice portable!  Room for two drives, one of them a hard disk, even.
NICE keyboard, readable screen.  Hope Atari is actually able to sell them.
Another portable?  And not even MS-Dos compatible?  <shudder>
Price?  Sandy Small was saying probably < $3000, Sig Hartmann was
saying "Reasonable."

>their [BEST] mouse is excellent, but the Visionary mouse is even better.
>Checked both and bought the BEST mouse becuase it was cheaper.
Wonderful.  I suppose you bought the BEST Macintosh emulator because it
was cheaper than the Magic Sac.

>It was crowded.
It was crowded, and they had an extra room for dealers, although it
was a rather less crowded in there than at the main room.

>The guy who rigged the 19inch moniterm had dveloped a card for
>one of those Multiscan 19inch monitors. 
I missed this -- could you post the information, if possible?

> -Ajay CHoudhri

    Well, beyond what Ajay saw, I talked to the rep for Gribnif Software
for a while, and they'll soon have new versions of NeoDesk for different
countries and languages.  Some of these are completed already.  I forget
which; I've already got my copy. 8-)

    I liked the 19" Moniterm.  NeoDesk certainly seems to support it.
Too bad I don't have $2000 lying around which I'm not using for
tuition or food.

    My main gripe, aside from the presence of BEST, is the door prize
system -- "If you do not pick up your prize within 15 minutes, it will
be forfeit."  Ah, well, it was an interesting fair nonetheless.