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Subject: Re: ATARI's current line
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Date: 29 Jan 91 17:25:48 GMT
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In article <886@TALOS.UUCP>, jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer) writes:
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|> From: jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer)
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|> Subject: Re: ATARI's current line
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|> Date: 25 Jan 91 17:23:47 GMT
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|> m937290@usna.navy.mil (Midn. Norman R. Solis (937290)
|> <m937290@usna.navy.mil>) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> :What machines is Atari offering these days.  I was under the
|> impression that
|> :Atari was doing pretty poorly as a computer business.  How much are
|> Atari
|> :systems selling for right now and how can you get one?
|> 
|> :- N. Richard Solis
|> 
|> :--
|> :| Richard Solis        m937290@n1.usna.navy.mil          Class of
|> 1993       |
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|> 
|> You are less than 10 miles away from Maryland's largest
|> Atari dealer -- Toad Computers in Severna Park, MD.  Their
|> phone number is (301) 544-6943.
|> 
|> Looking at their wintertime catalog I see that Atari is now
|> making three lines of computers; the 68000 based STs, the
|> 68030 based TTs, and the Portfolio (an MS-DOG based handheld
|> portable).
|> 
|> Since the Tramiel's acquired control of Atari the company
|> seems to have focused on the European market and, in the
|> opinion of many, ignored the domestic market.  In Europe the
|> Atari is considered to be a serious computer, in the USA
|> Atari tends to be equated with toy.
|> 
|> As someone who runs OS-9 and MINIX on my ST in addition to
|> GEM =I= realize that Atari computers are more than toys.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Jerry Gitomer at National Political Resources Inc, Alexandria, VA
|> USA
|> I am apolitical, have no resources, and speak only for myself.
|> Ma Bell (703)683-9090      (UUCP:  ...{uupsi,vrdxhq}!pbs!npri6!jerry
|> |> 

In Canada the following are currently available:

	1040STE 1Mb/68000-8mz/720k floppy/4096 colours -- $695.00

	MEGASTE4 4Mb/68000-16mz/720k floppy/4096 colours
		48mbHD -- $2,495.00

	MEGASTE1 1MB/68000-16Mz/720k floppy/4096 colours
		monochrome monitor -- $1,295.00

	TT030/4/40 4Mb/68030-32Mz/720k floppy/48mbHD -- $4,295.00

	Note:  The MEGASTEs have a 16Mz  68000, come in the same box as the
	TT. They have the following builtin:
		- 1 Parallel port
		- 4 Serial ports
		- 1 Mouse
		- 2 Joystick 
		- 1SCSI
		- 1 ACSI
		- Local talk
		- cartridge
		- MIDI in
		- MIDI out
		- 68881 math co-processor
		- 1 Internal A24/D16 VME expansion slot

	Monitors:

	SM124	- Monochrome for ST 640x400 -- $249
	SC1435	-  14 inch "STEREO" colour monitor for ST's -- $595
	TTM194	- 19 inch Mono Hi-res 1280x960 for TTs -- $1,495
	PTC1426	- 14 inch Multi-sync colour 640x480 for TTs -- $879

	All prices mentioned are suggest retail prices in Canadian funds.
	GST and PST extra

Jorgen Madsen
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Sask.
Canada