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From: stank@anvil.WV.TEK.COM (Stan Kalinowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT disk, memory upgrades (was Re: TT sales)
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Date: 10 Feb 91 05:09:22 GMT
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Somebody asked the question:

  Why would Atari insist on selling you the hard drive THEY want to sell?

Here are my thoughts:

 o perhaps because they can sell it pre-loaded with software.  How else
   would distribute all of the O/S, floppies, seems a bit inconvenient

 o How would they do quality control on a diskless system?  Seems to me
   that selling half-built systems introduces a lot of complications.
   Hard disks and hard disk drivers are not that stable yet despite
   the general acceptance of SCSI.  There are still compatibility
   problems with some drives.  Seems to me that selling a system with
   a harddisk installed is the simplest route to go.  Keep in mind that
   the vast majority of people out there are not hardware hackers.


							stank



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