Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!grahamt
From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Ram expansion on STes
Message-ID: <2380@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Mar 90 19:01:11 GMT
References: <7446844@joshua2.UUCP>
Organization: SPRU, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Lines: 22

From article <7446844@joshua2.UUCP>, by peterii@joshua2.UUCP (Peter Bechtold):
> In article <9003100804.AA03794@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> DUJARDIN@FRESE51.BITNET writes:
>> 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

Atari is certainly selling 520STEs in the UK.  You are right that it is
cheaper to buy a 520STE and expand the memory than to buy a 1040STE. 
One dealer in the UK is offering an expanded 1mb 520STE for 345 pounds
(as opposed to 499 pounds for an official 1040STE) and even a 4mb 520STE
for 599 pounds (or 625 pounds, depending on which magazine you read).

Very tempting.

Graham

-- 
Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK
 JANET: grahamt@uk.ac.sussex.syma  EARN/BITNET: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk
 ARPA:  grahamt%syma.sussex.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
 UUCP:  grahamt@syma.uucp          Phone: +44 273 686758