Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!ukma!xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!jason From: jason@cs.odu.edu (Jason C Austin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari TT 030 Launched! Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 90 21:08:53 GMT References: <1990Jun5.143231.4977@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <13266@wpi.wpi.edu> Sender: news@cs.odu.edu Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Lines: 21 In-reply-to: jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu's message of 5 Jun 90 17:02:09 GMT In article <13266@wpi.wpi.edu> jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka) writes: -> In article <1990Jun5.143231.4977@watserv1.waterloo.edu> pdbeam@watserv1.waterloo.edu (T.C.) writes: -> >(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). -> -> No! The Amiga 3000/16MHz with the 16MHz 68030/68881 goes for $2599 under the -> Educational Discount, and the 25MHZ 68030/68882 is $3039 under the discount. -> The 3000/16 has basically the same features, but can address up to 1.7 -> Gigabytes. I wonder if atari will be offering an educational discount for any of their machines. I'm not sure what the current exchange rate is but the two machines will probably end up being in the same price range. With some added memory and running UNIX, this might end up being a pretty nice machine, especially with all of the UNIX software that's available. -- -- Jason C. Austin jason@cs.odu.edu