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From: tinyguy@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Educational Discounting
Keywords: Considering that Atari is attempting to market a 68030 based, pricey
Message-ID: <5244@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 12 Oct 90 07:23:35 GMT
References: <2583@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <8938@milton.u.washington.edu>
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <8938@milton.u.washington.edu> iho@akbar.UUCP (Il Oh) writes:
>In article <2583@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> crouland@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Enemy Skater) writes:
>a limited software bundle.  Among the things left out are the LISP and C
>languages.  It also includes only the 160 MB hard disk, of which only
>30 MB is available after the OS is loaded on it.  In addition, this box 
>is not upgradable, other than through the ports.  You can't even upgrade 
>it to color.
>

Still, it's a very good value for money. Remember, it comes with 040,
which is suppose to be quite a bit faster than the previous 030 based
'cubes'. In any case, I think most of these machines will be bought by
the schools who will certainly connect them to their network, so small
free HD space is not a problem...




-TG