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From: erkamp@arcsun.arc.ab.ca (Bob Erkamp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The TT is finally there!
Keywords: TT
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.151451.13268@arcsun.arc.ab.ca>
Date: 14 Sep 90 15:14:51 GMT
References: <1898@ztivax.UUCP> <1990Sep12.190508.3153@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Sep13.172935.1342@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: erkamp@arcsun.UUCP (Bob Erkamp)
Organization: Alberta Research Council, Calgary
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In article <1990Sep13.172935.1342@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>In article <1990Sep12.190508.3153@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
>
>>That works out to be $4800 folks.  You may as well buy a Sparcstation SLC, or
>>a Mac IIci or an Amiga 3000, or a 33mhz 386, or....  Hardly a bargain by any
>>stretch of the word. Anyone who can afford $5K for a PC would probably want
>>more than a ST with a 68030 added on. 
>
>Chris, you're comparing apples and oranges. Things like the SLC
>generally cost quite a bit more in Europe than in the US. The TT is
>new, and we won't see what the real discounted price is until it's
>been available for a few months. You won't know what the TT price in
>the US is until it's released in the US. And so on.
>
>The only person who knows what they want and what options are best and
>what price is reasonable is the person who's buying the computer, who
>has to make a decision based on their personal situation.

I have to agree. We are currently looking at some X-terminals for work and 
these babes are around $5K CDN. I can should be able to get a TT that can do
anything these terminals can do and more for about the same price. I personally
can hardly wait. I hopefully will be able to use the software from my MEGA at
home and have the improvements in speed etc. the the TT should bring.

Bob Erkamp