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From: rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Thinking of Buying an ST.
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Date: 2 Oct 90 23:18:19 GMT
Reply-To: rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood)
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I'm thinking of buying a new machine, and I've come up with the following
thoughts:
 
1) A Mac would be really nice, but it's too expensive.
2) AT clones are attractively cheap these days.
3) an ST is cheap and I can get emulators for PC's and Macs.
 
The job I'm in has me working on Macs and IBM-compatibles, so the ST
option is fairly attractive.  My only question is, just how happy would
I be with the ST setup?  
 
So, to those of you out there with ST's, what's your opinion?  How good
are the Mac/PC emulators for the ST?  Do you have any advice for someone
getting set-up with an ST system?  (i.e. advantages of 520 vs 1040,
what hard-drive to buy, colour or mono monitor, etc.)
 
As well, I don't hear much about the ST these days.... Is it about to go
the way of the dodo?
 
Thanks for your words, 
 
Roy Wood.