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From: glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MegaSTe info
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.121355.5874@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 3 Feb 91 12:13:55 GMT
References: <1991Feb03.062924.15318@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
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In article <1991Feb03.062924.15318@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:
>Here's some info on the MegaSTe from Gregory (carter@garfield.cs.wisc.edu). 
>
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>
>The Spectre GCR works very nice with this machine.  You get hard disk 
>performance of something between a IIfx and IIsi.  600-700 kiloBYTES per 
>second.  33ms access time.

I'm just curious, are all ST hard disks this slow ? 33ms.

>
>I am very pleased. The retail value of the machine is $1979.99.  TOS 2.05's

This seems to be a lot for a 68000 based machine.

>
>Now here is the port listing from the DOCS:
>
>Graphics                                         320x200x16
>                                                 640x200x4
>                                                 640x400x2
>
>Color                                            4096 Colors

What's the story with 640x400x2 ? An amiga can do 640x400x16 AND even
640x400x4096, without any additional hardware.

>
>--Gregory
>
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>
>-- 
>         Ed Krimen  ...............................................
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Matt Crowd.