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From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Re: Why it is not power without price anymore?
Message-ID: <A352720211@thelake.mn.org>
Date: 19 Oct 90 08:40:12 GMT
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[In article <65661@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>,
     kclenden@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Kevin Clendenien) writes ... ]

> Oh come off it!  I have a catalog from J&R Music World in front of me.
> Here are two prices it shows:
>   Atari 520ST-FM
>   68000 processor
>   512KB RAM
>   Built-in 3.5 inch disk drive
>   $329.95
> 
>   Atari 1040STE
>   68000 processor
>   1MB RAM
>   Built-in 3.5 inch disk drive
>   Blitter
>   Digital stereo
>   $599.95

Those are good prices for what you get, but I (and a lot of other people)
would like to see something much bigger and faster -- i.e., in the realm
of contemporary computers and not stuck in 1985. My ST has a bad memory
chip, and rather than fix, it, I eventually am going to replace it with
something faster. I'm not going to spend $3000 to do so.

For those who are interested in prices, here are some I picked up today
from my local Atari dealer. You can see how much prices have dropped for
memory-stuffed CPUs.

520STFM      $379          1040STE
 with 1MB    $549            with 1MB    $649
                             with 2MB    $859
 with 4MB    $874            with 4MB   $1019
 --
 Steve Yelvington up at the lake in Minnesota 
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