Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!scott From: scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott Yelich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari TT 030 Launched! Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 90 16:35:35 GMT References: <1990Jun5.143231.4977@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <6575@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> Sender: news@cs.odu.edu Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Lines: 56 In-reply-to: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU's message of 5 Jun 90 21:32:49 GMT >ATARI OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES THE TT 030 >------------------------------------ Why do I find that funny? >> Under CBM's educational discount, an Amiga 3000 with 25MHz '030, '882, >>40 meg 11ms HD, and color multiscan monitor can be had for $3039. >>The 16 MHz model (w/68881) costs $2599, HD and monitor included. >I see two main advantages the TT has over the 3000, based on the specs you [DELETED] > I hope Atari and CBM both do well with their 030 machines (if only to >slow the sales of PC's and Macs :-). At this point though, it looks as if >Atari's got to do some hard work to compete well against the 3000. I don't know about other people... but when I shell out hundreds of dollars for software this year, I will not likely want to throw it away next year. The advantage that the TT MAY have over the CBM machines is that it will still run old Atari ST/8bit software. Yes, I get sick dreams of an Amiga with the ST emulator card running some bastardized Spectre MACulator gadget running some hacked IBM emulator running a another emulator.... etc. My personal opinion is that you need to buy a computer to do something. If the computer you bought does what you need, then it was a good purchase. If the computer you bought does not do what you need, it was a bad purchase. My ST does what I want. At one point I had some 500+ Atari 8bit disks. The ST was rumoured to run some 8bit stuff. The price was also right. Perhaps the Amiga did have, at that time, 50% more colors-- I already had a software base. Now that I have an ST with a bunch of software, it will take a lot for me to throw it all away and switch to a computer that I know nothing about, and that is ANY computer, not just Amiga. Does it really matter which computer is better when either will do what you want? With the way computer technology is advancing, I seriously doubt that I will spend MY money to buy another computer until at least 1993-1994. The minute you buy something it is old technology-- and I know this will always be true. At one point the old-technology of the future will be significantly advanced compared to the technology of that past that you are using-- and that is the time to buy... I am tired of seeing Amiga is better/cheaper. Great, sue me because I bought an ST and I like the machine that is worse and more expensive. If you think about how little we actually know about all of our machines and how little we actually use their potential, you will see that all of this machine comparison and bickering is a useless waste of time and we should be spending our time hacking our machines instead. Scott ps: enough on the ST-report-scam thread, it's dead.