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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari TT 030 Launched!
Keywords: Atari TT
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.182949.2439@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 90 18:29:49 GMT
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In article <1990Jun5.143231.4977@watserv1.waterloo.edu> pdbeam@watserv1.waterloo.edu (T.C.) writes:
>
>ATARI OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES THE TT 030
>------------------------------------

>using Canada as a test market to work the bugs out of the system before they 
>make their big push south of the border.  The expected price of the TT 030 
>(2Mbytes, 40M hard disc) is under $4000 (CDN).  This puts it well under the 
>Amiga 3000 in terms of price (the A3000 is under $4000 US). 

You get what you pay for.  Judging by the specs you give later in the
article, the TT does seem to be a significant step over the ST (but I
suppose it should for that kind of money), but I really don't think
it is a threat to the Amy 3000 or Sun workstations.  All of these
gadgets that are said to be available RSN (real soon now) for the
TT: including PC emulation, Mac emulation, networking capabilities
are nice, but based on Atari's previous antics I will believe all
that when I see it.  BTW, $4000 CDN is only slightly less than
$3000 USD.  That is the price of the A3000 16mhz machine.  However,
the A3000 is bundled with a multisync monitor, a 68881, a faster
hard drive, and more expansion slots.

This isn't really intended to be a "go out an buy the Amiga, the
TT sucks" type of posting, but I'm just trying to point out
that the TT isn't really breaking any new ground out there in
price or performance areas.  68030 technology has been available
on other platforms for quite a while now.

To each his own...I'm sure there are many ST users who will be more
than satisfied with the TT, but I don't think it will have the
wider appeal of other 68030 systems due to its rather limited
expanability and Atari's notorious reputation for forcing users
to buy new machines to get higher tech rather than providing a
reasonable upgrade path.

For all you ST diehards, flame away.  My mailbox is open.

>screen.  The aspect ratio is quite elongated top-to-bottom.
> 
>Later this year the tower TT (the TT/X?) will be released.  Among other 
>things, the tower TT will have four VME slots.  Also to be released are an 
>Ethernet card, a GENlock card, and a software IBM PC emulator.  The Atari GM 

And if you believe this...Tell you what, I can see the Brooklyn Bridge
from my office window and I see a for sale sign hanging on it.  You
can leave deposits with me... :-)


>Atari made no mention of their marketing intentions to us, but then again we 

Marketing?  hehe...
> 
>I think Atari still have a lot of promises to keep (UNIX, hardware cards, 
>software), but if they do then I think the TT will be a strong machine with 

No argument there.  The problem is that Atari Corp's record on kept
promises is just plain weak.  I do hope they pull it off so I can
unload the 400 shares of Atari stock I bought at 4 7/8.

> 
>Travis Capener
>c/o pdbeam@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
>-- 
Cheers,

Chris


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