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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: 3 May 91 06:56:16 GMT
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In article <1991May2.194001.9066@cs.ucla.edu> stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney) writes:
>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.
...
>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.
...
>
>>BobR
>-- 
>  Steve Whitney - UCLA CS Grad Student                       (())_-_(())

Okay, I may have to eat my words here.  What I said was based on conversations
with Atari developers.  Z-Net corroborates what Bob said.  Perhaps the Atari
marketing idiots have decided that they should keep people from putting
their own hard disks in Mega STEs afterall...  Sigh...

Sorry, Bob.  I thought (and hoped) that you were wrong.  It may still not be
true, but I have no hard evidence either.
-- 
  Steve Whitney - UCLA CS Grad Student                       (())_-_(())
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