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From: gl8f@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT's VME-slots
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Date: 10 Nov 89 04:23:15 GMT
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In article <1230@atha.AthabascaU.CA> rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander) writes:
>gl8f@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>>Right, and a HOME USER with a TT/P doesn't need the things you plug into
>>lots of slots. Why should a HOME USER then waste money on slots they won't
>>use?
>
>Well, perhaps you and I disagree about what a Home User is :-).

Sorry, I should have said "AVERAGE" home user. The projects you describe
seem to be something that will interest about .01% of all Atari owners,
at the most ;-)

>Something I would very much like to have on a VME card is a modem -
>not a modem for the phone line (how passe' :-), but a nice quick
>56kBaud HDLC radio packet modem.

Read the fine print. Doesn't the TT have a HDLC connector ;-) ?

>Anyway, I think I'm a home user.  I'll probably go with the TT/X iff I
>buy another Atari at all.

Yeah, if you want to build your own hardware. But I don't, and I don't
want to cough out all that extra $$$ for slots I won't use.

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Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu                                             I'm not the NRA.