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From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney)
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Subject: Re: Mega STe Questions.
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Date: 2 May 91 19:40:01 GMT
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In article <41920@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>I doubt anyone in the US has seen a Mega STe 1 yet, but the reports on
>the F-Net feeds are that Atari has purposely crippled the system (similar
>to the way they crippled the Mega ST2) to prevent upgrading it.
> 
>The pc board is cut off where the host adapter would be, and the plastic
>case has been redesigned to prevent intalling a hard drive mechanism.

NO NO NO.  The case has not been "redesigned" to prevent anyone from
installing a hard disk in it.  The case is not finished on the Mega STe1.
To install the hard disk, they apparently have to remove some posts from the 
mold, and in the no-hard-disk version, they, naturally, haven't done this.
I can't speak to the host adapter issue, but I doubt very much that the PC 
board has been deliberately cut off to prevent you from installing one.  I 
have even heard that Atari is working with a host adapter manufacturer which
might provide an add-on for the MSTe1.

>BobR
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