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: <1990Oct1.215142.10460@chx400.switch.ch> Date: 1 Oct 90 21:51:42 GMT References: <283@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <1990Sep30.175318.17716@chx400.switch.ch> <1990Oct1.142505.30917@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Reply-To: poole@chx400.switch.ch (Simon Poole) Organization: SWITCH Zuerich, Switzerland Lines: 23 In article <1990Oct1.142505.30917@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes: >In article <1990Sep30.175318.17716@chx400.switch.ch> poole@chx400.switch.ch (Simon Poole) writes: ... >> >>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 > >Well, I'm not sure how fair it is to compare prices of a 5 year old >68000 system and a new 68030 system. That might be a bit of a stretch. > At the time I bought my ST, you could just barely get a basic 286 system without hard disk for the amount of money the ST costed, now I could get a reasonable 386 system for the same (I doubt if any x86 system is reasonable anyway :-)). Why shouldn't Atari customers expect a similar advance in bang for the buck? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simon Poole poole@verw.switch.ch / poole@chx400.switch.ch / mcsun!chx400!poole ------------------------------------------------------------------------