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From: panisset@mcgill-vision.uucp (Jean-Francois Panisset)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Can you help an Atari novice ???
Summary: Is the 520 ST still viable?
Keywords: 520ST RAM HD
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Date: 5 Aug 90 22:13:06 GMT
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OK, here is a query for all you ST gurus... I know nothing about the ST
(OK, I know it runs a 68000 :-), and recently someone asked me about
getting rid of an Atari 520ST with color monitor (it was never used...). 
So my question is, is the 520ST still usable? Does current ST software run
on it? Is there a way to increase RAM from the current 512K? What about
hard drives? I saw in the docs that it has a HD port: is this SCSI? Can
a SCSI drive be somehow convinced to work with the ST? 
If the answer is that the 520 still has some life in it, then how much
money should I give this person for the ST + color monitor? (It would be
nice to have both a 386SX and a 68000 box on my desk :-).

Thanks in advance for anyone who takes time to answer these very basic 
questions. Got to start learning somewhere...

JF

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