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From: tgray@pieman.compserv.utas.edu.au (Tony Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Two New Computer Announcements - CeBIT
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.083131.71@tamar.compserv.utas.edu.au>
Date: 24 Mar 91 22:31:30 GMT
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In article <gbux2Yy00WC0ImXbxT@andrew.cmu.edu> mc4c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Choi) writes:
>> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.atari.st: 22-Mar-91 Re: Two New Computer
>> Announ.. T R Hall@atari.UUCP (1095)

<Lots of nice bits deleted >
>
>	But... Why no monitor port, I want colour graphics! And a floppy drive
>is a must. almost all PC notebooks got 'em, and if Atari ever wants to
>sell to anyone other than current atari faithful, they had better follow
>the competition. DS/DD is archaic! We need 1.44 meg, not just for this
>notebook, but for all ST/TT's. I write this in the hope that enough
>external pressure will force a redesign. Also, without a cartridge port,
>unless D.Small makes his internal emulator, there will be no Mac market.

Add all of these things and you'd just about require a box the size of
stacy. I don't think you could use these (or any) notebook systems
as a full system - you'd need some "base station" or at least another
ST to exchange data with, otherwise you just have to squeeze too much
hardware into too little a space.  

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