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From: S.R.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk (S.R. Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Ram expansion on STes
Message-ID: <1990Mar20.121414.777@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Mar 90 12:14:14 GMT
References: <7446844@joshua2.UUCP>
Sender: Steve Foster
Reply-To: s.r.foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Organization: Anarchy International
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In article <7446844@joshua2.UUCP> peterii@joshua2.UUCP (Peter Bechtold) writes:
>In article <9003100804.AA03794@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> DUJARDIN@FRESE51.BITNET writes:
>> [previous bit about poss 8m machine deleted]
>
>  [reply about 4 slots deleted]
>
>> (...)
>> BTW, Atari
>> doesn't sell 520 STEs at this moment, because it would be cheaper to buy a
>> 1040-expanded 520 than a true 1040 ( as an expanded Mega ST1 is cheaper than a
>> Mega ST2 or ST4 ). Indeed, memory expansion goes cheaper and cheaper : an 1 MB
>> SIMM now costs here 890 FF ( about $ 150 ), and a 4160 STE is 6990 FF ( $ 1100
>
>It may be true that upgrading a 500k ST to a 1M St would be cheaper than
>buying a original 1M machine, but in any case, ATARI is not going to sell
>any 500k machines in future (and they don't sell them now either).
>The minimum ram size is 1M.
>

This is just NOT TRUE. I have some friends who have bought 520STe's
from ordinary computer retailers. Most of the companies currently
advertising in ST WORLD (UK) are advertising 520STe packs, and they
have them in stock.


                               ...Steve

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