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From: chu@acsu.buffalo.edu (john c chu)
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Subject: Re: TT (Who has one?)
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Date: 26 Jul 90 04:51:14 GMT
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In article <1990Jul26.034324.20293@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
>I don't know if you can use that sort of rational logic when dealing
>with our favorite company.  One must only be reminded that 6 EPROMS
>(masked ROMS are even cheaper) to hold the TOS 1.4 OS "upgrade"
>cost about $40.  Isn't Atari selling the chips for $100 and then
>you have to PAY someone else to install them?  If you use Atari
>logic on the 68882 cost schedule, you'll see that the price may
>be a little higher than you'd imagined.

Whippersnapper speaking here:

1.) I thought $100 included installation of TOS 1.4 if you wanted it.

2.) Who said you had to buy the co-processor from Atari? Look in your
_Computer Shopper_, find a place that sells it for under $100, buy it,
unsocket the 68881 and put the 68882 in the socket.

(Or you could goto your local Maytag repairman and get it done. But I
thought nobody ever visited the Maytag repairman :-)

					john
				chu@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu