Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!poole From: poole@chx400.switch.ch (Simon Poole) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: The TT is finally there! Keywords: TT Message-ID: <1990Sep30.175318.17716@chx400.switch.ch> Date: 30 Sep 90 17:53:18 GMT References: <1898@ztivax.UUCP> <1990Sep12.190508.3153@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Sep13.172935.1342@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1990Sep13.185245.15406@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <283@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> Reply-To: poole@chx400.switch.ch (Simon Poole) Organization: SWITCH Zuerich, Switzerland Lines: 36 In article mboen@nixdorf.de (Martin Boening) writes: ...... >I'm quite aware that you connect to server machines with Ethernet and not >with a 300 Bd dial-up modem, you know. However, (see below). > >>Also: SLC's can be had for less than $3.5k - shop around. Bluntly, no > >Where over here in Europe can I get it? I know a few people, including me, >who'd then buy them for X terminals and such. Actually, whoever wrote the original article wasn't that far off, with academic rebate you can get a SLC for about ~$4000 in Switzerland and an IPC with 200MB disk for about ~$9000. As far as I know there is no similar rebate for Atari's here. (Not that I think it's a fair comparison anyway, you get a lot more for your money when you go out and buy a Sun.) Anyway the main problem with the TT (except Atari per se) is price: it's nearly twice as expensive as what I payed a long time ago (can it be five years? how time flys) for my ST520. If you ask around, most people wont go out and buy a computer for personal use that is way over SFr. 3000.-/$2300. So it really only appeals to freaks (considering the age group a lot of european Atari hackers are in, I have a lot of problems imagining them forking out this kind of money), businesses and academic institutions. While I can't speak for the couple of businesses that use Atari's in Switzerland, I do know that they don't have any chance of selling any substantial ammounts into the academic market (at least not at the current price). [BTW does anbody know why Atari actually decided to release the TT? Sinking ST sales?] -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simon Poole poole@verw.switch.ch / poole@chx400.switch.ch / mcsun!chx400!poole ------------------------------------------------------------------------